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Worried NBC and MBS cut war-news schedules drastically, cut off foreign commentators entirely. But CBS, it appeared, had not yet caught the jitters, stayed on the job hoping eventually to get right to the front...
...MBS has a low cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
...many listeners, the most flavorsome department of radio's war coverage has been MBS's "Propaganda Roundup," transcription of foreign broadcasts in English. From these and from foreign language broadcasts monitored and translated, the U. S. public has had an earful of typical atrocity stories, mainly from the German radio. Samples: "Today a highly pregnant German woman . . . was kicked in the abdomen by Polish beasts until she died at the wayside"; "a four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity...
First program, broadcast over MBS on a quarter-hour contributed by Manhattan's WOR on the eve of Flag Day, was designed to appeal to Americans of Italian ancestry. Main speakers: two Italian urchins from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk...
Last week U. S. Drama, Inc. put on Irish night over MBS, featuring William J. Bailey, the Singing Fireman, rendering Rose of Tralee, and famed ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith, the unhappy Democratic warrior, who pitched right into Communism...