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...background of loud, chaotic piano-banging. I kept on walking, and the voice was exactly like Hitler's, even down to the 1930's crackly sound. My God, I thought, it's Hitler screaming against a piano! But no, I was wrong. It was only one of those play-by-play basketball announcers on the radio. Boy, was I relieved...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...originated 103 years ago. It has been quite a homecoming. Some 2,500,000 people, including 35,000 foreigners, will have witnessed one or more of the 32 games before the final match in London late this week. Fans who could not come to Britain have kept abreast with play-by-play accounts from 700 radio and TV broadcasters and 1,600 reporters. Thanks to a worldwide satellite hookup, the final game will probably be witnessed on television by no fewer than 400 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Global Fever | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...heart surgery performed by Dr. DeBakey et al. [April 29] was interesting and exciting. However, I believe that the play-by-play news releases went beyond the limits of medical ethics by violating the physician's obligation to keep his patient's problems and therapy to himself. Such experimental medical procedures, though a necessary part of medical advancement, should not be displayed to the public like a baseball game; the dignity of the patient and his family is too important to permit that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...bout that? Must have been 25 years since that nice Allen boy went away to broadcast baseball in New York, and since the folks down South aren't exactly Yankee lovers, they didn't hear much of his renowned play-by-play. Now Mel Allen, 52, has a little something against those damyankees himself. They fired him. Well, maybe it's all for the best, because the Mellow tones will ring out over his native clay this season. He has signed on to broadcast the Atlanta end of radio and TV coverage for the National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

McCracken first tapped the market twelve years ago, more or less by accident. A divinity student and radio sports announcer, he recorded a platter entitled The Game of Life-a hectic play-by-play account of a football game, with Jesus coaching the Christian team and Satan sending in plays to the Forces of Evil. Originally meant only for use by a Texas church group. Game proved to be such a galloping commercial success that McCracken decided to go into the business for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religion on Records | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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