Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American popular music, from groaner's moan to Dixieland jazz, is a highly exportable commodity. So the State Department has learned from its new international disc jockey, Martin Block, whose weekly half-hour of music and informal chatter has become the Voice of America's most popular program. Even behind the Iron Curtain, where Communists are furiously attacking "decadent American music," thousands of recalcitrant Slavs continue to carry a torch for Dinah Shore or Gene Autry, Benny Goodman or Lena Home. Last week the Czech government skirmished with some of these incorrigibles and came off badly scorched...
...little basement theater in Prague was packed and jammed with Czech bobby-soxers, lured there by the Ministry of Information in hopes of hearing a two-hour program of Bing Crosby records...
...McGrath's figures, about 78% of the nation's fifth-grade students who are mentally qualified for college never get there. The result is that millions of U.S. citizens "go through life functioning below the level of their potential." His proposal: an annual $300 million federal aid program for college scholarships...
...piece Charleston Symphony Orchestra: Capito would pay $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. Modarelli agreed. Last week, along with West Virginia Governor Okey Patteson and the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history (2,500), Capito heard the result: a six-section program piece entitled River Saga...
...microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes on his grey slacks. "They talk a lot. And the older women talk more than the younger ones. They make great contestants, but I'd hate to be married to one of them...