Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Maurice Evans made the mistake of asking Author Bernard Shaw to join him in a transatlantic broadcast celebrating Man and Superman's record Broadway run. He was promptly winged with a Shavian shaft...
...Because Toscanini considered it a satisfactory recording. It was made during a broadcast and the coughs were audience-contributed...
...south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge: "You had better get out of Korea with your clothes packed . . . Why do you make such a valuable effort at the expense of your nervous system...
...There are signs also that the A.P. is getting over the timidity that makes it (for fear of offending one of its 3,900 members) almost objectionably objective. "We have a duty," said Gould's log, "to give the reader some idea of how near the truth a broadcast or communique may be . . ." And the A.P. is encouraging its own Managing Editors Association to find fault. Many an M.E. thinks the world's best news service could still be considerably improved...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra with Robert Shaw chorus, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 16 sides). Anyone who heard Toscanini's magnificent broadcast will want to avoid this album: the accents are muffled, the tempos sluggish and the heartbeat missing. Recording: poor...