Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with death, they wanted above all else one last communication with a home they had reluctantly left, to fight a war they did not understand. Hurriedly, sometimes awkwardly and unconsciously sententious, always with compelling urgency, they scribbled: "Dearest Mother . . . Dear Dad . . . Dearest Lib...
...best wartime program in radio was not heard by U.S. civilians. Called Command Performance (TIME, March 8,1943), it brought together each week the big names in show business. When servicemen overseas requested a sigh from Carole Landis or an ad-lib quarrel between Jack Benny and Fred Allen, they got it. Such high-priced talent, donated as a war service, could not possibly be financed by commercial radio. But last week an economy-size version called Request Performance was well on its way to stardom...
Many of radio's most familiar shop words (cue, gag, ad lib) are hand-me-downs from its elder cousins, the stage and screen. But radio now fits so snugly into a few that they seem custom-made. Last week Mutual published a dictionary of 200-odd broadcasting terms. Sample radioese...
Tomorrow morning's "Reveille in Swingtime" will be the seventy-fifth edition of the Crimson Network's early morning show beamed Monday through Saturday at Eliot House and V-12, Designed to replace the not-too-popular farm hour, the program presents swing and jazz interspersed with ad lib quips from reveille until the last scheduled breakfast formation...
Inaugurated at the 'beginning of last term to make the University's early risers' morning hours more bearable, the program is completely ad lib. As two of its more active workers say, "Nothing is written out or planned more than a minute and a half in advance. All this results in a certain informality...