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Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mailman Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1911-1925 | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Boston was not amused last week when NBC decided to rebroadcast Assignment: U.S.A. The city had heard all it wanted to hear last February when the program first went on the air (as one of an NBC series, Words At War-Tues., 11:30 p.m., EWT). But Variety, radio columnists, trade journals, etc. protested that the program said something important and, since NBC put it on at a late hour, without advertising, listeners should be given another chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: NBC v. Boston | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...debut of the ten-station Atlantic Coast Network was deliberately demure. It began by relaying as sustainers a pair of BBC programs: London News (weekdays, 10:45 p.m., E.W.T.) and Foreign Correspondent (Tues. & Wed., 8 p.m., EWT). Next month the network plans to add band and symphony concerts and news commentaries from Washington. But radiomen are still watching Bulova intently for other reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Network | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

When NBC's Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio's brighter offspring - the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer who strangely never wed, the Basin Street program (Blue, Wed. 9 p.m. EWT) has never been seriously wooed by a sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Basin Street Blues | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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