Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worried NBC and MBS cut war-news schedules drastically, cut off foreign commentators entirely. But CBS, it appeared, had not yet caught the jitters, stayed on the job hoping eventually to get right to the front...
...headquarters of the three big networks in Manhattan, special news staffs worked 24-hour shifts. At CBS, news-nosy, UP-trained Paul White, radio's first full-time news chief (of CBS's pioneer radio news service in 1933), ran the show in a glisteningly efficient, Hollywood-style newscasting department (four contiguous glass-walled rooms) high above Manhattan's Madison Avenue...
...CBS depended largely on its own, crisis-trained staff for foreign coverage-lean, precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...will have to identify it as WPIT (for Pittsburgh). Other important changes, most of them effective last week and last fortnight: Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati, W8XAL to WLWO; General Electric Co., Schenectady, W2XAD, W2XAF to WGEA, WGEO; G. E.'s Treasure Island, San Francisco, station, W6XBE to KGEI; CBS, Philadelphia, W3XAU to WCAI; NBC, New York, W3XL, W3XAL to WNBI, WRCA...
...Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed William N. Robson, CBS staff director, who used such sound-effects as knifing a watermelon to sound like a stabbing. Later the Workshop became a laboratory for all of Columbia's crack directors. Reis, now a writer-director for Paramount in Hollywood, will direct three of the plays in the Festival; Robson...