Word: broadcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
Then "last August, when news of victory was broadcast . . . people all over went mad with joy, but happiest of all were the girls. . . .So now returned G.I.s make love easily. In dance halls today, it is the women that wait for the men. . . . Their yearning for men is like the yearning for rain during a drought. . . . In universities, the girls are like refugees who see meat and fish before them; girl students in enticing, flowery clothes gather around ragged boy students . . . competing with each other to gain [their] favors. . . . In the streets, no more is it men who stare...
Under CIANDE, 50% of the broadcast day is devoted to fun; 30% to education, 20% to information. Interviews with "the man in the street" encourage listeners to speak freely. The Truth Box program calls for questions from the radio audience. It not only gets them (450 a day); it also finds how little the Japs were told in wartime. Sample questions: What is the truth about the battle of the Coral Sea? Will you tell us how American forces landed on Saipan and explain the progress of fighting there? What happened to all the fighting ships of the Japanese Navy...
JOURNALISM: CBS's Paul White, for building a "preeminent" reportorial team; Des Moines' KRNT, for recording "the only on-the-scene broadcast of the atomic bomb on trial...
...order to bring the NCAA championship basketball game to men who were unable to attend, the Student Council voted last night to join with the various House Committees in the purchases of a wire from New York, and thus to broadcast the contest through the facilities of the Crimson Network...