Word: kaltenborn
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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...