Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waging dull and gentlemanly campaigns, avoiding sensationalism. Last week New York's cold campaign suddenly got hot. After a two-hour session with the master strategist, Thomas E. Dewey. Senator Ives dramatically broke off his upstate speaking tour and roared down to Manhattan for a television and radio broadcast advertised as the first of a series of "shocking" blockbusters revealing some awful truths about Harriman...
...only change now planned by WHRB is improvement of broadcast quality in certain weak spots, such as Eliot House...
...committee has not yet decided what programs it will present next year, though it plans to schedule news broadcast of Louis M. Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, and a pre-performance commentary on the Boston Symphony Orchestra by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music; both are now heard on WGBH-FM. The faculty is also trying to arrange a new group of programs originating within each of the graduate professional schools and TV adaptations of University extension courses...
...Minister is 'not in a position to approve' may excite a desire to retort that he might try putting his feet on the mantelpiece and see if that does any good." ¶ The Overuse of Abstract Words: e.g., position, situation. "Sir Winston Churchill did not begin his broadcast on the 17th of June, 1940: 'The position in regard to France is extremely serious.' He began: 'The news from France is very bad.' He did not end it: 'We have absolute confidence that eventually the situation will be restored.' He ended...
...just a small item on the back page of heaven's newspaper," says Graham modestly. But on earth he has already got enough newspaper publicity to make both Hollywood and the circus envious. Five full-length movies in which he appears, a weekly radio program, broadcast on nearly 1,000 stations, and a daily newspaper column syndicated in 99 newspapers, keep a steady stream of converts "deciding for Christ" every week. Tycoons listen to him respectfully, and grey-headed clerics sit at his feet. The humble send him gifts, and the great ones seek him out. Churchill invited...