Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commerce Secretary Harriman sent it over to the White House, along with the information that its electronic components were offshoots of top-secret experimentation during World War II. It was christened the "walkie-no-back-talkie." With his transmitter, Harry Truman, under the duly registered call name "Independence," could broadcast to anyone within a range of 200 feet. His message could be received by any standard receiver tuned to 6575 kilocycles...
...caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed a Red plot to murder Stylianos Gonatas, head of the National Liberal Party, and two other prominent politicians. Bitsikas "sang" so effectively that 57 more Communists were arrested, then 300 more. The final roundup came on Christmas Eve, after the Vafiades broadcast...
...league choral singing. He has put new life into the art in the U.S. CBS and RCA Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale. Their recorded performances of Bach rank with the best in Europe. About the only time he gets all his 185 singers together is when the Chorale puts...
...Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...
...rehearsal outfit-a severe black alpaca choke-collar coat, that set off the whiteness of his hair and mustache-the little cellist himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly in his dressing room, accompanying them...