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...hosiery-company executive, had left for work; her daughters Betsy and Susan were in school. In the big, ivy-covered house in a Philadelphia suburb, there were only Mrs. Hill, her eleven-year-old son Jimmy and four-year-old twins, Clyde and Robert. On the 8 a.m. newscast she had heard about the three "desperate and vicious" bank robbers who had escaped from the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg...
...early this year, Comedian Dave Garroway got up to go to work at 4 a.m., and before the sun was well up, the television world was pretty well agreed on the morning's work: Dave had laid an egg. He was launching a new TV newscast called Today (weekdays, 7 a.m., NBC), and he had almost no sponsors. But he had more communication gadgets-teletype machines, TV monitors, assorted dials, radio earphones, news films-than he knew what to do with. TV critics earnestly advised Dave Garroway, a nice fellow, to go back to being a funnyman. Dave grinned...
Most of Cott's bombs have produced more whistle than blast. Among them (on radio): a weekly children's newscast by H. V. Kaltenborn ("Good morning! Last week two bad men tried to kill the President of the United States . . ."); short disk-jockey stints by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney and Arthur Treacher; programs by Poet Carl Sandburg (folk songs), Eleanor Roosevelt (interviews), baseball's Jackie Robinson (children's disk-jockey quiz). Of these, Robinson and an all-night recorded symphonic series -which started only last week-are the only...
...word spread like lightning, and by the time Huissen's Saturday-night moviegoers had left the last showing of For Whom the Bell Tolls, all Holland had heard it on the 11 p.m. newscast. Next morning before sunup, hundreds of bicycle lamps twinkled along the long, flat roads as the faithful rode to the Dominicans' early Mass and overflowed the chapel...
...weeks there had been only Iron Curtained silence about the fate of the four U.S. Air Force men who vanished in a EUR-47 flying from Munich to Belgrade. Then Moscow's 4 a.m. newscast cracked the silence: the C-47 had been forced down in Hungary by Soviet fighter planes, its crew arrested by the Hungarian secret police and charged with plotting to ferry -"spies and wreckers" into Hungary and the Ukraine. A few hours after Moscow spoke, Budapest said the same thing in a note to the U.S.A picture of what happened to Plane...