Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent appeal to the U.S. for special medicine--needed in Paris to cure critically ill Frenchmen--was picked up over shortwave as Parker was transcribing a broadcast for the Network's nightly foreign newscast in mid-evening...
...conditioned office, reading the morning Times-Dispatch (15 minutes). Then, turning to his typewriter, he pecks out his' daily two columns of editorials. He is done by 6, takes 40 minutes for longhand revisions, then jots down a few notes for his 8 a.m. broadcast. At 6:55 he plunges into the life & times of George Washington, writing in a clear, small hand on white, unlined paper. Freeman has three synchronized clocks in his office placed to catch his eye from any position (over one of them stands the stern sign: "Time is irreplaceable. Waste...
...when "my secretaries put me to bed" on an office couch for 15 minutes. After his nap he sees visitors (his secretary says radio listeners sometimes drop in just to look at the great man) until 11:55, when he heads for the radio station again and his noon broadcast...
...Dean's Office. Students must know exactly what streets, what steps, what squares they may invade. Just as the ban on Yard against sound trucks at Stillman should be patently clear. And if the Dean's Office is going to say "Stop" and "Go" to College publications, it should broadcast the whys and wherefores ahead of time. Last term there were charges of political prejudice and other angry words when University Hall invoked certain unfamiliar rules against the New Student magazine, which was already set up in type...
...entertainment, the Voice does an impressive job. It alternates the New York Philharmonic with jam sessions, offers foreign listeners forums, cultural roundups, discussions of U.S. science, literature, ballet, and dramatizations of various aspects of U.S. life (e.g., installment buying). To date, no U.S. comedians or soap operas have been broadcast to overseas listeners...