Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When radio feels that it has something important to say, it usually tries to say it in hour-long "documentaries." Usually, nobody listens. Pondering this depressing fact, Mutual's Elsie Dick, director of educational programs, determined to "close the gap between what the public likes and what the public needs...
Last week Mutual offered Split the Atom, the first of a series of tinsel-wrapped, icing-covered educational programs. Plugged as a giveaway show, advertised with titillating copy ("Is it serious? Or just plain delirious? You'll be frightened . . . and enlightened. You'll laugh . . . and you'll learn"), and presented before a typical studio audience of 900 people, Split the Atom was even endowed with a sponsor ("Nature, spelled NATURE, world's greatest manufacturer of energy...
...assemblage ever held. My own impression is that this was the most newsworthy fact about Amsterdam-such differences and stresses as appeared were inconsequential in comparison with what had been expected, and were overshadowed by the truly remarkable sweep of unity disclosed and even more by the fullness of mutual comprehension and appreciation...
...Cathedral House, where 1,200 clergy and laity of the diocese had gathered to watch a radio recording of Dark Victory, with Celeste Holm, and Walter Abel playing the leads and Walter Hampden as announcer. Next month the recording will be heard over 549 stations, including the Mutual Broadcasting System, as part of an ambitious effort to reach the 70 million Americans who belong to no church...
Boxing Doubleheader (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Tony Zale v. Marcel Cerdan and Gus Lesnevich v. Jersey Joe Walcott...