Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satellites. At the party conference called to agree on the new line, Premier Otto Grotewohl won the big cheers by criticizing Minister of Justice Hilde ("Hanging Hilde") Benjamin for failing to safeguard citizens' rights. Red China finally broke its silence about the disgrace of Stalin, and broadcast without comment Pravda's first cautious editorial...
...with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more than it does today, liked to keep its future plans a secret, but the paper chatted about new productions for each week of the Met's then 14-week season, and it survived. Then, through the Saturday afternoon broadcasts, the Guild went on a national basis, soon found itself 16,000 strong; Opera News began to devote itself heavily to the broadcast "Opera of the Week" and became an institution (at $4 a year, 20? an issue). Last week, nearing its 20th anniversary (in May), Opera News proudly counted...
...grown to the point of suffocation-fading autographed photos of opera stars cover the walls, documents stuff ancient filing cabinets. Editor Peltz's green tin lunchbox sinks into a deeper litter of folders and memos each day, as she tackles the problems of writing about an opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every possible angle. In 14 issues it has explored such facets as 1) Carmen's progress from vulgarity to respectability...
...Army Air Force Band (Victor 5 LPs). A whopping album of eye-misting nostalgia for any veteran of jitterbugging in Europe, short-waving in the Pacific, or lonely stargazing at home during World War II. The 57 numbers contain productions large and small of favorite tunes of the day, broadcast by one of the silkiest bands ever collected...
...Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months in 1952 as leader of an anti-government plot, he continued to organize anti-Peron forces, and on Sept. 17, 1955 revealed himself in a dramatic radio broadcast as "leader of the forces of liberation...