Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineer A. S. Karnik, taken aboard the British frigate Dampier, gave the first authentic explanation of the crash: a hydraulic fire in the port wing. The plane broke into three pieces when it hit the sea. This sounded more like a common accident than sabotage. In their first broadcast, long before any survivors had been picked up, the Communists had said that the plane exploded in mid-air-the same kind of wild report that crash investigators on the world's airlines encounter after most crackups. But Peking, which knows a propaganda windfall when it sees one, grabbed...
With only three hours advance notice, Sir Anthony Eden made his first broadcast to Britain as Prime Minister. It lasted two minutes, but it was news: "The Parliament elected in 1951 is now in its fourth year. It is therefore not surprising that, with a change of Prime Minister, there should be expectation of a general election. Uncertainty at home and abroad about the political future is bad for our influence in world affairs, bad for trade, and unsettling in many ways. I believe it is better to face this issue now." He set May 26 as the date...
Music Clubs prize for a string quartet. In 1953, Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 D.m., CBS). First U.S. broadcast of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor...
...TIME, Oct. 25) unwittingly made some British enemies. Up to his nonclerical collar in a "Tell Scotland" crusade, Graham found himself in the rough, both on a Scottish golf course and in the minds of England's organized animal lovers. The ruckus began when he started a BBC broadcast with a bland enough statement: "Fishes belong to the sea, animals belong to the jungle, human beings belong to God." But to Britain's buffalo-chip-on-shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were fighting words. More fuel was poured into the fire when an L.A.C.S. member reported that...