Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John McVane waited anxiously for NBC to clear the air. Finally, 40 minutes after Bernard Baruch began outlining the U.S. plan to control atomic energy (see INTERNATIONAL), McVane got the green light. The time & place, he said, a little breathlessly, were "the most important in the world today." His network evidently disagreed. During the preceding 40 minutes -while CBS, Mutual and three independent stations broadcast Baruch in full-NBC filled the air with two throbbing soap operas, Barry Cameron and David Harum...
Question for America (Mon. 10:30 p.m., ABC). Five network correspondents at home and overseas chatter, shortwave, about the issues of the week...
...market car for the day, drank black-market champagne with his black-market lunch & dinner, all of which cost him 5,000 of his black-market francs. A plane ticket to London cost another 3,000 francs. The remainder (112,000 French francs) was deposited with another of the network's stooges, who operated within a stone's throw of the Opera...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Marc Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony makes its network debut, Leonard Bernstein conducting...
...stumbles worst when he attempts to lay socialized industry and the human heart in the same downy bed. "If we build a network of electric power," cries Hero Telegin on the last page, ". . . America can watch our smoke!" "Yes," cries Heroine Dasha, "we'll live in a log cabin with large windows, beautifully clean, with pearls of resin coming out of the wood. In the winter we'll have a huge fire flaming on the hearth...