Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notice that you remain faithful to the usual American stereotype of the "prim" BBC [TIME, June 23] ... What American radio station would dare to broadcast the BBC's unexpurgated dramatization of the Trimalchio's Feast episode from the Satyricon of Petronius? On what American network could one expect to find Bertrand Russell debating the existence of God with a Jesuit priest...
...present at major news events through TV, resented having the committee shut them out. The committee's action backfired in one case, when an enterprising radio reporter smuggled a microphone into the room (hiding the wire under the rug), recorded some anti-Taft testimony, which was later broadcast.* Outside, TV cameras caught the grim faces of three guards posted at the closed door...
Blame. Last week what others only muttered, the influential London Economist broadcast. In a carefully pondered front page article, headlined "MR. CHURCHILL," the Conservative weekly observed : "Criticism of Mr. Churchill among his own supporters has grown, particularly during the past two months, to such proportions that it is no longer concealed. Some of the criticism is unimportant; it reflects the disappointment of partisan hopes that were never real. But much of it goes wider . . . Indecisiveness in government is the failing for which, above all others, a Prime Minister can never escape blame . . . There is every sign that Mr. Churchill...
Died. William E. Scripps, 70, publisher (since 1929) of the Detroit News (founded by his father, James E. Scripps, a half-brother of Newspaper Titan E. W. Scripps), and founder (in 1920) of the world's first commercial radio station, Detroit's WWJ-first to broadcast U.S. election returns, one of the first with symphony concerts, play-by-play accounts of ball games; of a heart ailment; at Lake Orion, Mich...
...spot announcement, broadcast over Manhattan's longhair station WQXR: "This is a wonderful country. In the good old U.S.A., we have the great privilege of having our own ideas. For example: one day a charming American lady came to Lincoln Warehouse Corp. . . . She rented a vault for the storage of her furniture. She wanted the walls and ceiling of the vault painted exactly the same as her apartment so that her furniture would have the same setting as in her own home. She got what she wanted. Whatever your ideas may be, you know your furniture is safe with...