Word: hour-and-a-half
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...obliged to drop its Blue network, as FCC has demanded, it may not be able to find a spot for its expensive hour-and-a-half symphonic program. In any case it may not be able to get a conductor of the caliber of Toscanini or Stokowski. Last week, in the face of these many painful ifs, NBC said merely that the Symphony would continue...
...really sonorous send-off ASCAP had to wait till Sunday night. Then, on an hour-and-a-half, coast-to-coast program called "ASCAP Salutes Mutual," the composers broadcast a solemn Te Deum celebrating their first settlement with the chains...
Sponsor of the 500 meetings was the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (representing 129 Protestant bodies with 30,000,000 adherents). Purpose of the meetings: to boost foreign missions. First step: to call foreign missions "Christian Foreign Service." The hour-and-a-half broadcast, carried on three networks and numerous short-wave stations, gave Christian Foreign Service the widest hearing it had ever had. Next: a campaign for funds...
...referee to award him 200 points. His team finished the match 120 points ahead. Thereupon began a series of protests and counterprotests that rocked the tournament and culminated next day in a conference of five of contract's highest authorities to decide the dispute. After an hour-and-a-half session, during which it was established that Mr. McPherran had erred in speaking but Mr. Barnes had no business believing him, the committee voted three-to-two in Mr. McPherran's favor. Exhausted by its emotional ordeal, Mr. McPherran's team was defeated in the final round...
Best-informed Washington opinion last week was: That the interview was Correspondent Krock's own idea, that it was originally intended as a background Sunday story in which the President would recapitulate his views; that Mr. Krock was closeted with the President for an hour-and-a-half in the White House oval study; that the entire interview was then submitted to the President, who suggested new insertions and approved its use as a news story-even approved the headlines. But all Mr. Krock would say was: "No comment...