Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assault listeners with a "monotonous beat of rock 'n' roll": WAPE is a request station, and on a typical broadcast day fully 90% of our musical selections are picked by listeners; less than 50% of the selections could properly be classed as rock 'n' roll. Our news department is particularly chagrined at the short shrift of "trickle of news every two hours . . ." Please let it be known that at WAPE there is service as well as showmanship, duty as well as diversion...
...other friends to a stag banquet at the U.S. embassy residence in London. There was Sir Winston Churchill, still game, who had flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where he wanted them (see cut). And at dinner, amid old reminiscences, old discords faded...
...Daimler buy preferred shares that can be converted into 5% of Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal is to a different kind of customer...
...flaws in Hollywood's Blue Angel, in fact, lie less in its cast than in its direction and production. Where the original was visually stark and grimy, the remake, splashed with incongruously cheery color, has the phony patina of Palm Springs. The sets and scenery (some of it filmed in Bavaria) suggest a Victor Herbert operetta rather than German bourgeois society. And the hardbitten, even morbid truths hammered home in the German version become soft and mawkish half-truths under the hand of Hollywood's Edward Dmytryk, who has consented to a happy ending that makes the teacher...
Anatomy of a Murder. Producer-Director Otto Preminger's effective courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. James Stewart is the lawyer and Lee Remick the defendant's inviting wife, in a court whose memorable presiding judge is famed Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...