Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Kind of Fix. They also refused to give up hope. After the U.S. Government broadcast their story to the world, the Georgescus redoubled their efforts to rescue their sons. They had help. Ohio's Congresswoman Frances Bolton approached Russia's Andrei Vishinsky at a U.N. reception in New York. She got nowhere. "Oh," said Vishinsky, "Rumania is not my country." But she did not give up, took the Georgescus to see Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith. As a result, a personal letter from President Eisenhower was delivered to Rumanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last February...
...refused to allow any Braves games on TV. Philadelphia is limiting TV to day games, while Detroit bans the TV cameras not only at night but on Sundays and holidays, and St. Louis will televise home games only when the ballpark is sold out. Baltimore, a majorleague newcomer, will broadcast 26 home games and 30 on the road. And Cleveland is making an experiment this season that other cities are watching: no home games will be telecast, but all road games will be seen on Cleveland TV screens. The hope is that this will whet the fans' appetite...
Thomas D. Perry, Jr., new manager of the Symphony, said Wednesday that the College choral group is expected to join in at least one of the B.S.O.'s nationally broadcast concerts next year. This would continue the singing group's 30-year tradition of giving joint performances with the local orchestra...
...N.B.C. agreement to broadcast the Symphony concerts could also enhance the Glee Club's finances, Perry added. He suggested that the radio contract would increase fees received by the club for non-benefit performances with the B.S.O...
With radio, the problem has been different. University policy has permitted regional broadcasts of football games with a commercial sponsor. But all the spectacle of television is missing, partly because the audience is so restricted, and partly because radio itself has taken a back seat to television. The listening public of not too long ago is a viewing public today, and nobody gets very excited anymore about football games broadcast over the radio...