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...opposite numbers for these CBS flashes, NBC has as its permanent staff a talented trio headed by tall, cadaverous Max Jordan, veteran London representative Fred Bate, and French-born, ex-poilu Paul Archinard. Number three U. S. network, MBS, is headed by John Steele in London, by Waverley Root in France, depends on space-rate orators like veteran Newshen Sigrid Schultz in Berlin and hard-working Arthur Mann, now covering the R. A. F. Both NBC and CBS have their European correspondents on the air regularly for two 15-minute periods daily...
...Likeliest, folksiest of last week's newcomers was MBS's Sheep and Goats Club, an all-Negro jamboree with an all-Negro studio audience (Wednesdays 8 to 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). Entrepreneur is colored Actor Richard Huey (All God's Chillun Got Wings, In Abraham's Bosom, Porgy), a Harlem big shot who runs a barbecue near Lenox Avenue called Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, and operates on the side a theatrical booking office for Negro talent. As Bossman Huey explained the setup: "Over on the right here we got the sheep. . . . They sing hymns...
...Knows?, on a four-station MBS network for Griffin's shoe polish Saturday nights 8:30 to 8:45 E.S.T., is the latest thing in radio ghost stories. Its talebearer is gaunt, ghost-grey Dr. Hereward Carrington, director of the American Psychical Institute, an oldtime spook-hunter who likes to spend his vacations in haunted houses. Last week Who Knows? spun a yarn about a composer who came back after death with the finale to a concerto left unfinished at his death. This week a Scotland Yard detective solves a murder mystery by premonition. The trade's handy...
...could figure, his was the oldest daily program still on the books. And, as anniversary luck would have it, John B. was able to treat his waking audience to the news scoop of the week-the first word of the incoming Queen Elizabeth. From an Eastern Air Lines plane, MBS Newscaster Dave Driscoll spotted the Queen Elizabeth at 6:52 a.m. E.S.T. At 7:17 Driscoll was radiophoning a description of her over John B.'s program. When Driscoll had about finished, Beverly Griffith, Eastern Air Lines representative aboard the plane, came on the radiophone. "Listen," said Griffith. Then...
Last weekend, over a 27-station MBS eastern hookup, audiences heard a newsy newcomer in radio programs-a weekly behind-scenes news and feature "column" entitled Confidentially Yours. In its first network broadcast, Confidentially Yours had a lot to say that was not particularly confidential about the Hore-Belisha bust-up in Britain, about the Duchess of Windsor's untenanted officers' hospital in France. But it did tell audiences, in the area in which most U. S. Jews are concentrated, a likely item of Jewish news: "One of the largest armies in the modern history of the Jewish...