Word: play-by-play
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Breaking in its new direct wire to the Indoor Athletic Building, the Crimson Network will present a play-by-play account of the Harvard-MIT basketball game tonight. Robert S. Kieve '43 will give the running account of the battle, assisted by Dave Stearns, sports editor of the CRIMSON...
...Barber, fascinated by high-toned music, the idea of a baseball announcer turning up with the Philharmonic was not at all incongruous. He is convinced it takes culture to handle a play-by-play account of a ball game and he earnestly delves into such works as The Rise of American Civilization to give himself background for his job. Clinical in his attitude toward sport, he has charted the records of each big-league player, has memorized most of the data of the Spalding Guide Book all the way back...
...play-by-play accounts of the campaign in and evacuation from Greece were released last week by the British War Office and Admiralty. They told a story of hurried dispositions, last-minute stopgaps, narrow escapes; and made vividly clear what a liability the much-hailed resistance of Yugoslavia turned out to be. Summary...
Those who take to the announcing end of the radio will have a chance to give news broadcasts, and later, when the equipment is installed, will be able to give play-by-play accounts of basket-ball games and swimming meets held in the Indoor Athletic Building. What is more they may be the men to interview such stars as Ann Corio and Ella Logan and such prominent figures as Andre Maurois and George Jessel...
Brigham Young-Frontiersman (20th Century-Fox) continues the biographical meanderings of Plutarchian Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck with a two-hour treatise on the two most critical years in the history of the Mormon Church. Beginning with a cruelly realistic, play-by-play account of the persecution of the Latter-Day Saints in Illinois, Producer Zanuck moves his Mormons across the western plains through a succession of bouts with cold and starvation; plants them by the Great Salt Lake for an arduous, hungry winter, a pitched battle with crickets, a final miraculous victory assisted by a flock...