Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surveys have shown that about 10 percent of the radio audience in this country, or nearly seven million people, listen frequently to foreign short wave programs. Professor Allport stated, "Of these, only a few believe what they hear," he said," but there are those who even though they do no attach much importance to the broadcasts themselves, pass on to other people what they have heard. Thus they get a feeling of importance in letting others knew that they have been listening to foreign stations...
Among those who listen to broadcasts there are a few enemy agents in this country who derive from Nazi propaganda the cues for rumors that will tend to foster disunity among citizens. Professor Allport revealed. On of the best ways to run down enemy agents, he observed, is to ascertain the districts where rumors are most prevalent, and then try, if possible, to discover who is responsible for them...
...performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie Cantor; Friday, Rudy Vallee. There is also news in Tagalog, and a discussion in English, Freedom for the Philippines. The Philippines listen...
Then there is the excitement every collector knows at finding a long-sought item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which...
...title but recent developments also indicate that he may have to emerge from his wigwam once more this year in an attempt to wrest the remaining 50 per cent from a somewhat stubborn Princeton Tiger. If the battle materializes, it will make Frank Buck's tales listen like a bedtime story...