Word: orson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's voice, the witches in Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed William N. Robson, CBS staff director, who used such sound-effects as knifing a watermelon to sound like a stabbing. Later the Workshop became a laboratory for all of Columbia's crack directors. Reis, now a writer-director...
...last week a panting New York baseball fan, fearing that what he had just heard on the radio might have been another Orson Welles fantasy, telephoned the Columbia Broadcasting studios, asked if they really had broadcast a game between the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds. What he had heard: the feeble Giants, who have been flopping around in the second division of the National League all season, had just whammed out seven homeruns in three innings-five of them in one inning, three of them in succession-against the powerful, League-leading Cincinnati Reds...
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...
...fisted Congressman Martin Dies had been able to call Orson Welles's Martians before his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities he could not have extracted a more lurid story than he got last week. Witnesses testified in all seriousness to their belief...
...Cousin Woolworth Donahue, who were soon scared away by gawking crowds; Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumanslcy; Jang Krishnan, one of four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...