Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar stunt was staged at Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind., where undergraduates conducted a fake broadcast of a European war so realistically that one student not aware of the hoax fainted...
...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...
...lecture, the last of a series of three on the general topic, "The Changing West," will start at 8 o'clock. The lectures have been given under the auspices of the Harvard Committee on Extra Curricular Study of American History. It will be broadcast internationally over the non-commercial short wave station WIXAL, of Boston...
...more details of this spectral dancer, whose mysterious resurrection they all said had been dramatized grippingly on WMCA's true-story Five Star Final program. To WMCA and Five Star Final, the flood of letters was more a mystery than the spook tale. The station had never broadcast the story...
...stuff to newspapers as well as to students of mass psychology, the phenomenon of erroneously attributed wildfire tales like last week's is fairly new stuff to radio. Re-examination of WMCA's letters revealed that no correspondent claimed to have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...