Word: hookup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when a United church, three ex-baby-burlesqueens and the indignant relatives of a plumber named William John Wright agreed out of court to split his $12,500 estate. The case was the screwiest yet aired by the CBS Court of Missing Heirs, which on a coast-to-coast hookup has unearthed claimants to over...
...words were Sir George Henry Wilkinson's, Lord Mayor of London. He spoke them, not to his own fellow citizens, but to 6,700 New Yorkers. His voice came over a two-way hookup to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall one night last week. The broadcast was the most elaborate benefit performance New Yorkers had ever seen-the U. S. Theatre's Carnival For Britain, staged by the American Theatre Wing of the British War Relief Society...
...ideas submitted by advertising agency J. Walter Thompson when it took over the Old Gold account last January, What's New will be tried out for 13 weeks, will be put on a national hookup if it makes the grade. Pleasant to hear last week was the smooth playing of Xylophonist Red Norvo as a Goodman guest. Equally pleasant this week should be the famed Goodman trio, which will get together for the first time in over two years. Besides Goodman, it includes Colored Pianist Teddy Wilson, who has his own band, Drummer Dave Tough, lately with Tommy Dorsey...
...Latin-American affiliates, which include 39 long-wave, 25 short-wave stations, will be required to air CBS sustaining shows for at least an hour a day, will receive a percentage of all time sales if and when CBS wangles sponsors for the new hookup. The network plans to broadcast many a Latin-American show on its regular U. S. channels, exchange talent with Latin America as it goes along...
...symposium of "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs" was a highlight of the afternoon program. Held in New Lecture Hall, and broadcast over a national hookup, the meeting featured speeches by a number of faculty members...