Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost alone among undergraduate activities, the Crimson Network held firm from '43 on, and even improved its position in a measure. Government aid in securing priorities for buying equipment was obtained, and the movement from Shepard Hall to Dudley a year age actually resulted in a gain, since its present location is, according, to one Networker, much better for their purposes. Letting the men of the Busy School and the Yard in on Network programs is their number one postwar project, along with an increased coverage of sports contests and a membership drive, to be opened by a four week...
French devotees of le jazz hot were as distressed as hepcats who have lost their piano player. Since Liberation, they had turned to a squad of American G.I.s for music and entertainment. But Yanks in France had dwindled to fewer than 30,000 ; now the American Forces Network -the best in U.S. radio - was packing its tubes and preparing to pull the plug. To their French fans, it was a crisis of the first order...
...Paris, a two-hour nightly dance program. Unlike dull, politicky French radio, which suspended afternoon broadcasts four days a week to cut costs, AFN had become as staple a fare as red wine. Gaston Deferre, French Under Secretary of Information, asked formally that the U.S. Army keep the network going...
...Brigadier General Paul W. Thompson, chief of the Army's Information and Education Division, granted a reprieve: AFN's staff of 28, which prepares 88 shows a week, would stand by for another fortnight. A way might be found, the General hinted, to keep the popular AFN network going. The French radio audience could still twist the dial to AFN, sit back and have a good time...
...third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian...