Word: mcbrides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday evening some of us listened to Miss Von Lieben, a student at the University of Vienna, describe sincerely and without flourishes just what amount of food students in Vienna had to live on, elsewhere had meant to them. But the Mary Margaret McBride background to this program, furnished by the other participants, was enough to cause some quick dial-twisting to another station...
...connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...
Every weekday for the past 12½ years Mary Margaret McBride has brought to the air 45 minutes of what she calls "a good radio voice-the kind that pushes itself up against you." For the first 35 minutes she titters through an interview with a celebrity. In the last ten she really goes into her act-mugging through commercials for 13 sponsors (who pay her about $100,000 a year...
...What puzzles me is that much of the best entertainment in radio is built around a sarcastic treatment of the things radio holds most dear." Scripps-Howard Columnist Robert C. Ruark wrote this "sorrowfully" last week. He was not opposed to all of radio. "Mary Margaret McBride . . . is preferable to a hole in the head," said Ruark...
...biggest crowd (60,135 fans) ever to see a regularly scheduled pro game jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch Cleveland's Browns run away from Miami, 44-0. The big attendance was no lucky accident: Arthur McBride, the Browns's owner, had hired 25 telephone operators to call everybody in Cleveland, to urge them to get out to the game. The runaway score made it no match to watch, but the management had thoughtfully advertised big half-time shows, with everything from fireworks to a leg show by a $50,000 all-girl band. Two days...