Word: play-by-play
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...during the war, when he found that boys from Arkansas argued just as hotly as Brooklynites about big-league baseball, even though the only games they ever heard were the World Series. After he got out of the Navy he started Dallas' station KLIF, began broadcasting from teletyped play-by-play accounts flashed to him from a Manhattan office. Under fire at first from minor-league owners, McLendon soon convinced them that his broadcasts (and constant plugging of minor-league clubs) were helping to fill local ballparks by whipping up baseball interest. When other stations in Texas...
...Ingrid Bergman had found any of the privacy that her situation clearly called for, it was not the fault of newsmen, photographers and talkative clinic personnel. Reporters got hold of Ingrid's nursing schedule. Obstetrician Dr. Giuseppe Sannicandro gave Rome's radio audience a play-by-play account of the delivery ("We used the same sort of sedative that was administered to Rita Hay worth"). Three jeeploads of the celere, the Rome riot squad, were summoned to pull clambering reporters off the clinic wall and to guard not only the building but also Ingrid...
...Harvard Club of Boston has announced elaborate plans for the afternoon. Following the traditional buffet luncheon, member and their gentlemen guests will follow the play-by-play over television in "Harvard Hall," the main dining room, with possible celebrations afterwards...
Despite the local advent of television, most Crimson rooters will still get their news of the game through radio. Local coverage will be handled by station WHDH while WNHC in New Haven keeps stay-at-home Bulldog enthusiasts informed of the play-by-play...
...students expect 50 western rooters to show up for the broadcast, at 50 cents a head. The money covers only refreshments, since Tidewater Associated has agreed to pipe the play-by-play across the continent free of charge...