Word: broadcasting
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Died. Douglas Stringfellow, 44, Utah Republican Congressman from 1952 to 1954, a paraplegic veteran whose wondrous accounts of his World War II adventures as an OSS agent got him elected, were broadcast on This Is Your Life, serialized in the press, then exploded as a hoax in 1954 (he had never been in combat, was injured in an accident), after which he became a landscape painter; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif...
Schuller's score is starkly modern, laced with traditional and atonal improvisations by a septet of jazz musicians who share the pit with the full orchestra. In one impressive orchestral interlude, the foreboding of violence is achieved by the integration of threatening crowd noises broadcast through loudspeakers in the rear of the auditorium, sustained, jaggedly dissonant chords from the orchestra, and frantic improvisations from the jazz combo. At the curtain, the Hamburg audience exploded in a great ovation, called Boatwright back again and again for bows...
...restraining the violently injured feelings of the people of this region." Ojukwu also repeated his past threats to lead the East out of the Nigerian Federation entirely. "I have said before that the East would not secede unless she is forced out," he told the Ibos in a radio broadcast. "Fellow countrymen, the push has started...
...they can make twice the money at that time with local spot ads on their own local news show. So Cronkite goes on at 7 p.m. in the New York area, just when the average commuter has arrived home to concentrate on his first martini. In Chicago, he is broadcast at 5:30, in San Francisco at 6:30 and in Los Angeles at 7. A large share of his potential audience is inevitably lost...
...learned to respect his news judgment; his producers have learned that he will back that judgment with a fierce pride. Despite the cost, he will not hesitate to remake the tape of his show when new film or a new story cries out for space-even after the original broadcast has already gone on the air in some parts of the country. He is determined to keep up with what he and other TV commentators like to call the "raw news," the "hard news" of day-to-day events-which is to say, the late-breaking stories that have always...