Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARCH OF TIME will go back on the air for a single, important broadcast on Tuesday, June 25, at 8 p.m. (E.D.T.) over the Columbia Broadcasting System. The entire half-hour show will be devoted to a dramatic enactment of the causes and results of famine conditions abroad and what Americans can do about them...
...Barry went much of the credit for a new success in moppetry. He originated and conducts the Jury, made up of average youngsters whose responses to questions are unpredictable, forthright. Barry neither hogs the mike nor acts like a benevolent uncle. By putting his charges at ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury strictly limits...
From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: "Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in ... the Library of Congress. . . . Representative Americans . . . have gathered to consider with you the great crossroads to which the splitting of the atom has brought mankind. ... I think it will be of great importance. . . ." Thus Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy last week introduced one of radio's greatest public-service programs...
...were no sound effects, no musical bridge between speakers, no corny gags. CBS thought the question of the age demanded straight answers. The program's success was due in large part to that approach-and also to one of the most painstaking preparations ever made for a single broadcast...
...with such musical and marital accomplishments, 36-year-old Dave Rose seems painfully shy. He spends most of his time at the piano or with his miniature railroad (1,000 feet of track). His deadline composing and arranging amaze his friends. Most weeks, he begins preparing his broadcast only a day in advance. Modern composers do not amaze David Rose. He regards them as "a bunch of arrangers suffering from over-excitement...