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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For a variety of reasons (main one: to avoid wearing out radio stars' welcome), Radio does not go in for selling phonograph records of broadcasts to the public. But one night last week, listeners to WQXR in Manhattan heard a broadcast called Then Came War: 1939 that anyone was...
For those who stayed tuned in during the war crisis, Then Came War: 1939, a MARCH OF TiMEstyle dramatization (with background by Commentator Elmer Davis) of the ten tumbled days that ushered in World War II, contains little new or startling. But for anyone who wants to keep Hitler'...
Talbot G. ("Jimmy") Bowen is a Massachusetts-born ex-doughboy who has knocked around considerably in his 43 years. Before he landed his present job, representing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures in Montevideo, he used to manage the American Club in Buenos Aires. Visitors from the States knew expansive, bouncy Jimmy...
Sunday afternoon, at 3:45 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy came on the air to report that the Graf Spee was weighing anchor. At 5:15, he was on again, to report that the Spee had steamed out into the Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to...
Absolutely, Jimmy Bowen had done a sweetheart of a reporting job, the first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed...