Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor-husband-a stomach specialist sometimes taken for a veterinarian because his home was also his wife's menagerie. When she announced she had trained a chimpanzee to talk, she was invited by Sanka Coffee to have it speak on their We, the People radio program. At the broadcast, female chimpanzee Susan, proud in a man's grey business suit and huge napping basketball shoes, sat by in a chair munching grapes, while Mrs. Lintz told what apes eat, why they beat their chests. Then she turned to Susan, hopefully said: "Who-who? who-who?" Susan looked...
...discourage them. At week's end the gaunt, feverish-eyed dean gave the 15-minute religious talk he has been accustomed to deliver on the radio, but so sickly did he look that the Memphis station installed a microphone in the deanery, persuaded him to remain there to broadcast in his quavering voice...
Last summer for $25,000 a year National Broadcasting Co. hired Yale's former President, James Rowland Angell, as educational adviser. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System, not to be outdone, gathered a volunteer Adult Education Board of 13* around a table to decide what kind of education it should broadcast. After an all-day session the Board marched out to announce Columbia would withdraw some precious evening time from sale, would shortly produce: 1) a series of half-hour discussions between a teacher and a group of salty personalities (as individual and witty as Charlie McCarthy, if possible...
This week the third Annual MacDowell Radio Festival boomed far beyond U. S. borders. Manhattan's New York Philharmonic-Symphony, under slope-shouldered Georges Enesco, broadcast MacDowell's symphonic poem Lancelot and Elaine over the Columbia network. Other commemorative broadcasts were heard over Columbia, NBC, Don Lee, and Canadian broadcasting systems, as well as 56 independent stations. Additional MacDowell broadcasts were heard from one station each in Ireland, Sweden, England, Australia, Poland. Norway, and from three stations in Germany, where MacDowell spent his most fruitful student years...
William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, was the speaker last night in an address broadcast over the radio. His topic was "Realism and Mysticism...