Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disk Jockey Bob Bandy of station WAPL, in Appleton, Wis., has always believed in direct action. In 1955 he walked through the streets in red underwear because the Braves lost the pennant. In 1958 he sat for 43 days atop the Hotel Balliet to promote a community youth center. Gaudy accomplishments, indeed -but would Bandy be ready when the really big challenge came...
...came last week. Howard Dorsey, president of KFMA in Davenport, Iowa, had offered Bandy a new job at what the disk jockey understood to be $250 a week (his old salary: $100). Bandy arrived at his new headquarters, found a note waiting for him: "Welcome to KFMA. We hope you like your salary." Enclosed was a check...
...waited until the other station people had left, then locked one door, jammed a desk and filing cabinet against the other. On his turntable he placed a song called Only the Shadow Knows, which he had been warned was loathed by President Dorsey. For eight hours well-barricaded Disk Jockey Bandy played Only the Shadow Knows, interrupting it occasionally to comment heatedly on how he had been had. Citizens of Davenport smuggled in hamburgers and soft drinks...
Making his Broadway debut. Radio Disk Jockey Richard Hayes is a personable and vocally authoritative Brad, but the show suffers from a split personality. In Act I, it hunts with the hipsters; in Act II, it dines by candlelight with the squares. By musical's end, the satiric fumes have evaporated, and The Nervous Set has merely settled down...
Over Chicago a bright blue light hangs in the sky, visible 400 miles away. When dawn comes the light jades out in the sunshine, and the sky station stands revealed. It is a great, saucerlike disk supported in the high, thin air by whirling helicopter blades. On its deck perch radar antennas, turning ceaselessly. It stays up month after month. It has no fuel to be exhausted; its power is beamed to it from the ground...