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Word: cbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's night life," reported CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid by short wave last week, "swirls along a few carpeted steps below street level. . . . The orchestra is good. . . . The food is only fair. . . . The atmosphere is phony and the gaiety is forced and unreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Foreign Newsreel | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

Frank Sinatra, having just switched from vitamins to cosmetics (TIME, Jan. 1), quit the Lucky Strike Hit Parade (CBS, Sat., 9-9:45 p.m., E.W.T.). Reason : piping himself into the Manhattan program from Hollywood had cost him $2,000 more than his $2,800 weekly stipend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Boom for Swoon | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...comedian who had been on the air only eight times in five years took a firm grasp on a network mike last week-as the star of his own Danny Kaye Show (CBS, Sat., 8-8:30p.m,, E.W.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mile-a-Minute Mugger | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Three weeks ago startled network officials heard frustrated Bill Goodwin sing out his sign-off ("This is CBS ... the Columbia . . . Broadcasting . . . System") in a rapidly rising whine that broke into a high, hysterical giggle. Fortnight ago he concluded it with a stricken "OUCH!" Last week, he added a single, unsavory "Ughh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Announcer's Exit | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Beginning next week, on his old CBS spot (9-9:30 p.m. Wed.), Frankie will sing for Max Factor Cosmetics-on the not unlikely assumption that even if his voice didn't spell vitamins, it will probably send women straight out to the drugstore to buy lipsticks and pancake powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Health v. Beauty | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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