Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Dupuy got on the air four times for CBS mostly as a military conversationalist with News Analysts Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn (see p. 46). Major Lambert, in his single turn at the microphone, told MBS audiences that the Polish strategy would be to withdraw before the Germans to the Vistula and stall until the autumn rains, which were expected to bog down Germany's mechanized army...
...agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling map-in-lap listeners where and why to shift their pins...
...Wilcox (who had her father as crew) to salty, 59-year-old Edward Merrill, last year's champion. After three days of racing, over a six-mile course, 22-year-old Robert Levin of Beverly, N. J. hoisted the championship pennant-scoring 109½ points with his Bad News. Runner-up, only 5½ points behind, was spunky Sally Wilcox and her Scud-a better skipper by three points than oldtimer Merrill and J. Ramsey Speer Jr., chairman of the Regatta Committee...
Production made the most immediate news. Studios jittered over the return of stars from War zones, publicity releases painted a terrifying picture of others being mustered to foreign colors. Only important stars still stranded in Europe last week were Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan, who had reported for work at M. G. M.'s English studio at Denham. And only one Hollywood star actually took passage for Europe: Tyrone Power's French wife Annabella, who flew by transatlantic Clipper to bring her family back from Paris...
While U. S. correspondents in Europe's capitals were wondering how to get news back to their papers (see col. 3), at home their editors were pondering how to play what news they got. Two conflicting impulses made the U. S. press sound like a man arguing with himself. One was a voice of passion urging him to show his indignation over Führer Hitler's aggression. The other was a voice of reason counseling detachment to keep...