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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mention should also be made of the faithful recorded programs which, although they may lack the glamor and expectancy of a live concert, nevertheless continue to give enjoyment to many. The Crimson Network should be mentioned, as should WMEX, and the 11:30 o'clock Columbia Masterworks program, and a host of others. WCOP, until recently, has offered a program at 1 o'clock known as "Design for Listening," which, in spite of some very questionable announcing, is more than adequate because of its fine choice of records. It went off the air only last week. A few post-cards...
...passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...
...editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...
...comedy, The More The Merrier, was heard on 50 stations of the four major radio networks last week. CBS's Manhattan station WABC turned the silly gag down-to the extent of refusing to hitch the advertising plug to a newscast. Other CBS stations were willing, however, to mention McCrea's shower on variety and other light programs...
Realistic Finish. Perhaps the toughest part of Spike Canham's job was to get out a newspaper in the face of the Monitor's old religious taboos against mention of such things as death, disease, disaster, crime. To Christian Scientists these are "error." The Monitor often had to perform journalistic acrobatics to print the news. Once, unable to say "dead," a Monitor writer referred to "passed-on mules...