Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CBS had given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening...
...V.D.M.T.- "V.D.M.T.-" G.I.s in Europe, hearing these cryptic initials aired again & again over the American Forces Network, were intrigued. They were supposed to be. Captain Frank Danzig, peacetime CBS man, dreamed up the V.D.M.T. in response to an Army...
...editor for the Associated Press. Others: Robert Joseph Manning, Washington U.P. staffman; Ben Yablonky, PM foreign news rewrite man; Cary Robertson, the Louisville Courier-Journal's Sunday editor; Arthur Wallace Hepner, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter; James Batal, OWI feature writer; Richard Edgar Stockwell, Minneapolis's WCCO-CBS associate news editor; Frank West Hewlett, United Press war correspondent; Leon Svirsky, TIME'S science editor...
...Mail makes a practice of yelling bloody murder about U.S. interests encroaching on British trade. Last week, over the by-line of able Correspondent Philip Jordan, the Mail front-paged a red-hot story: "An offer of one million pounds a year is reported to have been made by CBS for the right to exploit Luxembourg Radio. . . . I understand that Colonel William Paley, head of CBS, has recently taken time off from his duties as chief of the Psychological Warfare Radio Unit to negotiate the deal with the Luxembourg Government...
Before the project got under way, OWI spent two years planning, hiring a multilingual staff of 250 (about half British), experimenting and entangling itself in red tape. Colonel William Paley, peacetime head of CBS, was called in to set things straight. He negotiated with the BBC for equipment, promised that ABSIE would clear out 90 days after V-E day. Robert Sherwood, then OWI's overseas director, arranged the programs; he said that ABSIE would "join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe - and to our enemies...