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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, broadcasting a special Wednesday night service, Dr. Straton's lineal successor, the Rev. John S. Wimbish, celebrated the 30th anniversary of Calvary Baptist's "Radio Ministry." It is the oldest continuing religious broadcast on the air. Now using the facilities of Manhattan's station WMGM, Calvary broadcasts twice each Sunday to a radio audience clustered in half a dozen nearby states. Its programs are also picked up on short wave and relayed by Station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. Last year Pastor Wimbish got 25,000 letters from his U.S. and foreign listeners, many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Twisting the Devil's Tail | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...stories came from London instead of Moscow. The six Western correspondents in Moscow were roundly scooped by their own home offices because they couldn't get through the censors. But their London bureaus, accustomed to Russian censorship, were ready. They use monitoring services in London which teletype Moscow broadcasts into their bureaus, thus were able to send out the news as soon as it was broadcast. Later the Western correspondents in Moscow got through to Paris and London-by phone. But not until hours later did their cabled stories start to come in. Though the United Press, Associated Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Over the Iron Curtain | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Black Borders. On the news of Stalin's death, the wire services not only beat their own correspondents again, but they also got the news to their clients two hours before the Russian people heard it. The London bureaus picked up a broadcast by Tass, the official Russian news agency, to provincial papers, telling them how to play the death story when it was announced. Tass ordered front pages bordered in black with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform filling three columns on the right side of the page then listed five stories (official death notice, funeral arrangements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Over the Iron Curtain | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Last night's broadcast said he suffered a brain hemorrhage 12 nights later, during the night of March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STALIN NEAR DEATH | 3/4/1953 | See Source »

This was the text of the broadcast, which attributed the report to the Soviet news agency Tass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STALIN NEAR DEATH | 3/4/1953 | See Source »

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