Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Pressure. That morning the President told his Cabinet members that his mind was made up; he told them his plan of action. He set the timing himself: he would make a nationwide broadcast to the people that night, personally take specific emergency anti-strike proposals to Congress the next day. The usually cool Missourian had his dander up. Late in the day he had a swim and his periodic physical checkup. Reported his physician: the President's blood pressure was "way up yonder...
Four hours before he was to broadcast, the President, sitting in the spacious White House study, began to put down in longhand what he wanted to say. He discussed it with his advisers, and Judge Samuel Rosenman, summoned from New York, put some razor-sharp edges...
...Hooper estimate. The comparatively small number of listeners was due to the broadcast's last-minute announcement...
News stories had to be specially reset, and cartoons redrawn with simpler lines, for the Colonel's one-copy edition. Just how much all this cost, no Tribman would say. It took 28 minutes to broadcast the first issue (four pages, about the size of a lady's handkerchief) 29 miles to the Colonel's home. The Colonel liked it so well that he ordered a new facsimile machine which will reproduce a page about three times as fast...
Freddy now dates this part of his life as "B.C.-before concerto," which means before the 1941 Sunday when he heard a broadcast of Toscanini and Vladimir Horowitz, playing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. B.C. includes Freddy's boyhood, thumping a drum and selling musical instruments. For ten years Freddy Martin's band played prestige jobs like the Waldorf-Astoria, but never made much money at it. His recording of Tchaikovsky's Concerto put him into the big time, in the movies and on the air, and shot his income up to about...