Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's civil war. Government forces pressed the Communists hard on nearly all fronts, were rapidly driving a wedge between Yenan and Kalgan, the key Communist bases. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces also opened an all-out drive to recapture North China's vital communications network, had already regained control of the important Peiping-Cheng-teh railroad through the seizure of Kupehkow, strategic Great Wall pass...
...poll of G.I. gripes brought reforms that saved $110,000,000 a year in food costs alone. When he got out of uniform, he popped off about radio. NBC listened. Last week, the network demonstrated the Schwerin System for audience testing and proudly announced that now, thanks to Horace, NBC would know when its programs are no good...
Breaking a summer-long "off the air" silence, the Crimson Network will tonight resume broadcasting to points throughout the University, Ray A. Goldberg '48, Network President, announced this afternoon. Programs will begin at 7:30 o'clock and will continue until 12:05 o'clock on a Monday through Friday evening schedule...
First-night features slated by the Network include a 15-minute talk by Dan H. Fenn '44, CRIMSON president of 1942-43 and now assistant dean of freshmen, who will present a review of College activities during the summer, a brief summary of the present scene, and a view of the University future. At 9:30 o'clock a half-hour special broadcast will feature a transcription of the prodigious registration in Memorial Hall last Thursday and Friday, with on-the-spot interviews of returning veterans and other participants in the pre-term ordeal...
Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...