Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The opera has been Milton Cross's job, hobby, and spiritual sustainer for more years than NBC has been a patron. As a boy, vacationing from his Hell's Kitchen Manhattan neighborhood, he fought for the job of delivering butter to the great Louise Homer's country...
Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read...
He is undoubtedly the people's choice for musical programs. When he has no programs to announce, he has to sit watch in an empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his...
His main commercial nowadays is Information Please, which is right up his broad alley. For this weekly half-hour, he collects $100 a week from Canada Dry. But since he announces it on NBC's time, the network thriftily docks him three-quarters of an hour's basic...
Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to...