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This week, with the help of Collaborator Edward Anthony, Schechter recounts in an anecdotal history the saga of his eight years as newschief for NBC. Entitled I Live on Air,† his masterwork is sometimes lively, sometimes arch, in describing strange doings that range from wiring the pyramids in Egypt for sound to putting on a contest among singing mice. Many are the bad aerial breaks that he recalls. After an announcement of the Macon crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take...
Last summer it made arrangements to broadcast from Hyde Park and Elwood, Ind., in honor of the Presidential candidates. Unfortunately, after the Elwood show was set to go, Newschief Paul White of CBS, to which Vox Pop transferred in 1939, forbade any mention of Wendell Willkie, on the ground that his name was controversial. Obediently Interlocutors Johnson & Butterworth discussed with the citizens of Elwood the Tomato Festival then taking place. This went on until an old gaffer cackled: "Why don't you ask about the most important thing in Elwood-Wendell Willkie? Man and boy I've known...
Three weeks ago CBS Newschief Paul White and CBS European Director Ed Murrow started arranging by cable and short-wave conference to present from England a show called London After Dark. Working with BBC, Murrow lined up nine commentators, including Vincent Sheean and J. B. Priestley, got them spotted with portable mikes all over Lon don. Last week the program was heard in the U. S. Unexpected was the cooperation of Adolf Hitler, whose bombers flew over London, but dropped no bombs...
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