Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philadelphia Orchestra (Sun. 12:30 p.m. CBS). First broadcast of Randall Thompson's A Trip to Nahant...
Last week the Chinese Communists exulted: Defector Wei was in their hands and talking their language. Peking Radio broadcast a letter from Wei to his "colleagues and friends'' on Formosa, praising Peking's glorious achievements and denouncing Chiang Kaishek. Wrote Wei: "You have all seen that during the Korean war the powerful military might of our motherland forced the U.S. to a ceasefire. Taiwan [Formosa] will eventually be liberated." At last Communist report, Wei and his wife, seeing the sights of Canton, were "very lighthearted and thrilled...
...mother. Cried Stokowski: "No, no, no, no. That's not true. I was born in 1887 . . . That's a damned lie. My mother was not Irish. This is terrible-where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia of Music. Stokowski took himself off in high dudgeon, refused to clarify for reporters either his birth date or parentage...
...Youth Wants to Know. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright (see BUSINESS) deplored the market's excesses. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart got in the act by appearing on Walter Winchell's ABC telecast for the express purpose of asking Winchell some friendly questions about his broadcast stock tips. Unfortunately, the Senator began by answering questions instead of asking them, and whenever he seemed likely to get in stride, was forced to make way for a commercial for Gem razors...
...Communists. On Winchell's Sunday-night broadcast, the announcer read the retraction: "Walter Winchell has authorized ABC and Gruen Watch Co. Inc. to state that he never said or meant to say over the air or in his newspaper columns that the New York Post or its publisher or Mr. James A. Wechsler are Communists or sympathetic to Communism. If anything Mr. Winchell said was so construed, he regrets and withdraws it. The American Broadcasting Co. and Gruen, also, wish to retract any statement, which were subject to such construction...