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Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: The Armoured Dove, a new play by Nord Riley, about a sort of Major Barbara of the missile...
Latest radio pirate is Radio Nord, an American-owned, 20-kilowatt pirate radio station operating from a converted German freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord...
...Radio Nord is only the latest radio pirate to steal onto the airways. The Swiss-owned Radio Mercur began broadcasting to Danish listeners from a freighter off Copenhagen three years ago, now takes in some $700,000 annually, boasts some 300,000 listeners, recently expanded to a bigger, better ship. A year ago, Radio Veronika began pirate broadcasts into Holland from an old German lightship, is still going strong, even tried an abortive beaming into England (they stopped because Dutch listeners complained, wanted all the programs in Dutch...
Though international convention bars broadcasting from international waters, and the targeted countries always voice official protest, nothing much is done to halt the pirates. Reason: the pirate programs are too popular. Fortnight ago, Sweden issued an edict that it would confiscate Radio Nord's transmitting equipment if it came into Swedish waters. But authorities did not revoke the export permit that allows Nord to ferry its tapes out to the ship. Though Danish officials rail in print against Radio Mercur. the government's official newspaper, Aktuelt, sells the pirates its news service...
...Angeles Lawyer Alphonse Matthews, a self-styled beatnik named Eric ("Big Daddy") Nord turned the joint into a coffeehouse. By midsummer, "the Gas House" was in full swing, and the beats pushed in to make the scene, as they say. A jukebox blared the beatniks' Three Bs: Bach, Bartok and "Bird" (Cool Saxophonist Charlie Parker). Bongo drums pounded out broken rhythms from early afternoon to early morning. Folk singers plunked guitars. Far-out paintings dripped from the walls. Ancient, rump-ruptured couches, rescued from the city dump, decorated the floor, and in the center of the room stood...