Word: networks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem then was what to do with the information. Disclosure might give away the workings of the U.S. atomic detection network; it might be better if the Russians did not know the U.S. knew. But no one wanted to let the Russians make a triumphant announcement at a moment of their own choosing, when the news might become a massive propaganda coup. President Truman decided to announce the news immediately...
...have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) over a Midwestern network (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., C.S.T...
Like other network executives, CBS Director of Sports Red Barber has worried a lot about this state of affairs. "We asked ourselves what we could do that the independent station could not do," said Barber, "and the answer was the Football Roundup." Instead of bringing a single big game to the air, the three-hour CBS Roundup (Sat. 2:30 p.m., E.S.T.) brings 20. From a master studio in Manhattan, Barber has direct wires to a group of five "live" stations, each covering a different sectional game as though it were a regular broadcast. Also, capsule summaries of lesser games...
...network of Atlantic Pact councils, committees and other bodies, the powerhouse will be a three-nation "standing committee" (the U.S., Britain, France) with headquarters in Washington...
...giant refectory and 750 students, including Brown's 17 fraternities. But a 10-ft. dry moat would surround them all, and a bristling 6-ft. iron stockade would surround that. There would be three entrances to the quad, each with a guardhouse manned by campus police. Underground, a network of passageways would allow students to go to dinner without getting drenched in wet weather...