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...practices are another story, then as now. In 1937 I was taken to lunch at Delmonico's by Sterling Fisher, then head of CBS's public affairs department. He said he wanted me there because he had a nasty job to perform. He had to fire CBS Newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, who was causing too much trouble with his anti-Hitler broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert, H.V., red in the face, excused himself and stalked out. Ironically, when the 1938 Munich crisis heated up, CBS called H.V. to come...
...website for "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" has not the live performance but the dress rehearsal of the September 11, 1938 show, "Caesar," a shortened version of the company?s Broadway hit, now with radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn barking out Suetonius? chronicle of the death of a dictator. CBS had renewed the Mercury?s contract for 13 more weeks; it would now be opposite Charlie McCarthy on Sundays at 8. Welles had an over-lapping commitment: "The Shadow" was on from 5:30 to 6:00. So he had less than two hours to get to the CBS studio...
...anchors and correspondents who appear in Contact. I mean the three prominent newsmen who were featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 1951 classic. In that film's opening moments, the descent of the flying saucer to Earth is breathlessly reported by NBC's H.V. Kaltenborn, radio commentator Elmer Davis and muckraker Drew Pearson. Then as now, the producers believed the presence of journalists would lend an air of authenticity to their otherworldly plot...
This collection of memories ranges over wartime Washington, the transformation of industries, the families stumbling around in blacked-out houses, the rapt attention paid to H.V. Kaltenborn, the vacations spent on beaches dark with oil from ships sunk off the New Jersey coast by German U-boats. Hoopes found hundreds of nostalgic oddments. One man remembers a lapel button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo...
...newsreels are shown in a small theater whose entrance has been reconstructed from fragments of Trans-Lux newsreel theaters in New York and Washington; during the opening weeks, films from the '30s will feature clips of Hitler addressing his countrymen. Vintage radio sets play actual news broadcasts; H.V. Kaltenborn's reports from London crackle from a 1939 RCA portable. Similarly, major television news stories are rebroadcast, ranging in time from celebrations of the conquest of Japan to the conquest of the moon. Once each day, a duplicate of the compact Apollo 11 TV camera will be demonstrated, allowing...