Word: newscasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel II. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, does not confine his activities to the classroom and Widener. Every Monday afternoon this fall he will be found in the studies of shortwave station WRUL (formerly W2XAL) directing a foreign language newscast aimed at Europe...
Among U. S. citizens who listened, hair-on-end, to Actor Orson Welles's Martian newscast (TIME, Nov. 7) was a doddypolled 22-year-old airplane mechanic named Cheston Lee Eshleman. More piqued than panicked, he got an idea. He wanted to pay the Martians a return visit, stake out a refuge for "harmless people" during the next war. Secretly, he wrote to Britain for maps and other information that would be useful in a transatlantic flight...