Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of War Information. "My job was to control our dear writers to see that they didn't all go off in different directions. In London, I was chief of the German Language Section, and it was interesting work. We had to plan radio shows for broadcast to the Germans. Our Prisoner of War shows had a certain effect, I think, near the end when things were going badly for them...
...much the religion dispute counteracted the effects of the recent nationwide radio program "The Case for the College" is indeterminable, but Pratt did say that the directors of the Program were "some-what disappointed" in the immediate response to the broadcast staged Harvard...
Many programs predictably muddled through bloopers born of the green crews' clumsiness and uncertainty. Boom dollies were knocked over; commercials and credits were run twice, or upside down, or not at all; sound faded away or leaked sudden bursts of studio chatter and laughter. A few shows, regularly broadcast live, were replaced by film substitutes. But most programs-and the strike-rolled on as scheduled...
...Copey was asked to broadcast his annual Christmas reading. He predicted that his first radio performance would be his last. As it turned out, he continued the custom and even allowed a movie to be made for future Harvard generations who would never see the master in action. Even in these operations, his sensitivity to the audience and himself was acute. At the end of his film, Copey remarks gravely: "Such thanks as a dead man can give you are yours...
...Buttrick, in a recent coast-to-coast radio broadcast based on certain articles appearing in the CRIMSON, has been referred to as a man given to bigotry for his alleged anti-Semitic views in the Memorial Church controversy. Yet nothing could be farther from what this man represents. Dr. Buttrick has always stood for tolerance and brotherhood among all religious faiths. On Brotherhood Day, February 24, 1944, Columbia University recognized this by conferring upon him, as a representative of the Protestant faith, and two other men, as representatives of the Catholic and of the Jewish faiths, their highest honor: Doctor...