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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Major Dupuy got on the air four times for CBS mostly as a military conversationalist with News Analysts Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn (see p. 46). Major Lambert, in his single turn at the microphone, told MBS audiences that the Polish strategy would be to withdraw before the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Casualties, Replacements | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

2) In its daily round of war capitals, NBC got through one night to Warsaw. Mendel Mozes, correspondent for the Jewish Telegraph Agency in Poland, wasted no time getting down to the details of his visit to the Nazi-bombed Centos Society home for Jewish children near

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jitters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

3) In Washington, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said for the record : 1) that in war the press is a seasoned veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jitters | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Earlier last week Sir Norman Brookes, president of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association, had announced that the team (all eligible for war service) had been instructed to return home at once. But Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman did not fall in with Sir Norman's plans. He and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Australian Invasion | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

First effect of this uncertainty on Hollywood, which has already written off the German and Italian box offices, once 10% of its foreign gross, was a scaling down of costs on current productions. Director Wesley Ruggles, rather than shave his $2,000,000 budget for Arizona, shelved the picture. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shellshock | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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