Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the rating he gives him, there can be no doubt that his favorite musician is Jean Sibelius. He owns three radios and never misses a broadcast of his own compositions, tuning in inaccurately and listening intently to the resultant howling mixture of music and static. "You must be a good, very good musician to listen to radio," he says, "to get details...
Italian radio stations immediately broadcast Fascism's pride to the whole world. For 35 minutes stout young Bruno enjoyed being a world hero. Then suddenly a radio station of Italy's new "bosom friend" Germany made an announcement. With great satisfaction in a matter "particularly interesting," Berlin announced that Flight Captain Gerhard Nitschke, 32-year-old chief pilot of the Heinkel Airplane Works, had just flown a two-motored Heinkel-Benz airplane 621 miles, with a payload of 2,204 lb-(1,000 kg.) at a speed of 313 m.p.h.-46 m.p.h. faster than young Mussolini...
...announced he would give Robert Schumann's "lost" violin concerto its world premiere (TIME Aug. 23), the German Government announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff gave a distorted, garbled version by another composer...
...Lewis that he write a book about a minister, helped him gather material, and was appalled by the outcome, Elmer Gantry-Bill Stidger is big, baldish, hearty in the manner of preachers who did Y. M. C. A. work in the War. In the early days of radio he broadcast news from Detroit and still says: "I consider myself a reporter, not a preacher. The earliest Christians were reporters who simply told to others what they saw, heard and experienced, and that is what I try to do." Currently he preaches on Sundays at Boston's Morgan Memorial Church...
Earlier in the afternoon, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, described the Act as "Swiss-cheese neutrality" in a broadcast to the nation over the Columbia Broadcasting System. Remarking that the American people cannot be put in "hermetically-sealed cans" he declared that it is "self-interest to prepare in advance to prevent the storm...