Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who Tuesday gave N.B.C. the right to broadcast weekly concerts from Symphony Hall for the 1954-55 season, want the Glee Club to continue its 30-year tradition of singing at these programs...
...were passages when his beat was robust as of old. There were other times when he almost stopped conducting, seeming to stand aside, listening to the music. Then the incredible happened: during the Bacchanal from Tannhäuser, the superb orchestra actually became confused. Alert NBC engineers cut the broadcast off the air with an announcement about "operational difficulties." Incongruously, a few bars of Brahms' First Symphony drifted over the air, as a fill-in recording was played in the studio...
Scare story of the week, aired by Gossipist Walter Winchell in his Sunday-night broadcast: "New polio vaccine . . . may be a killer . . . The U.S. Public Health Service tested ten batches . . . found that seven contained live, not dead, polio virus. It killed several monkeys...
...last week the quartet's peppy recording of Do Lord had sold 180,000 copies. The quartet (with Rhonda Fleming, a Mormon, now filling in for Delia Russell) has four more recordings scheduled for April, a date to sing on the Colgate Comedy Hour's Easter Sunday broadcast, and a projected movie short. Easter billing: "The Four Girls Making a Joyful Noise unto the Lord...
...editors started calling Pearson to find out why he had broken the release date, no one was more surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before, had broadcast an H-bomb description three months ago with almost as many details as last week's column. No one had said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about...