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...good friend Colonel Konrad Bertram Holm Sundlo, commanding officer, actually welcomed the invaders. At Oslo, when 20,000 troopers had been landed, and Nazi warplanes had appalled the population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully armed men each trip, it didn't much matter if the people found out what went on. In four busses, 200 shock troopers were sent to find King Haakon and the Royal Norwegian Government, which had fled Oslo at Tuesday's dawn. The invading...
Also booked for the evening is the winner of the New England jam session this winter, Tasker Crosson, who is preparing to give a hot half-hour of swing with his 12-piece Negro orchestra...
Other features on the opening broadcast included a short talk by William W. Tyng '41, Chairman of the Network; "Jazz Lab," a half-hour swing program; "Music Masters," an hour of symphonic music; and a 15 minute news broadcast and informal interview...
...April Fool's Eve, two Sundays ago, Jack Benny in his NBC radio half-hour held an imaginary telephone conversation with Orson Welles, jokingly blamed recent sunspot magnetic storms on him, worried about the end of the world. In Philadelphia, Press Agent William A. A. Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium...
...conference committee also stated that it had secured time for a half-hour's program over station W.B.Z. and N.B.C.'s New England network. Although the exact time of the program has not yet been determined, it will come sometime between five and nine o'clock on Saturday evening...