Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time is like a rider meeting a new mount-he isn't quite sure he'll go over the fence ahead of the horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious rival...
...biggest radio stations in the country will drop its commentators next week. Thereafter Los Angeles' KFI will broadcast only its own "analysts," enjoined from offering "personal opinions and interpretations." (Two cautious commentators will become "analysts"; seven livelier commentators will be silenced.) KFI's manager William B. Ryan explained that he was "fed up" with commentators who contradicted one another, was against their commercial sponsorship, skeptical of various commentators' qualifications as "experts," wanted objectivity...
...General Charles de Gaulle got down to brass tacks. In a broadcast to his people he made admirably clear what France wants...
...Robert Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...
With G.I.s overseas, the biggest attraction on radio is a pretty, breezy blonde with a high-school-fresh voice named Martha Wilkerson. Most U.S. civilians never heard of her-but from Kodiak to Canberra, Martha is a top G.I. favorite. Last week, with her 870th broadcast, Martha Wilkerson could boast of receiving one-fourth of all the fan mail inspired by the Armed Forces Radio Service's 122 air shows...