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...Show?, another consisted of reading the funnies.) One day, as he was ending a broadcast, a studio director shoved a hastily scribbled note under his nose: he would have to fill in for the next 15 minutes. Ace signaled his wife, who was in the studio, spent the next quarter-hour in goofy, unrehearsed chatter with Jane, about a bridge game the night before. It was a hit. By the following year, Easy Aces had gone to Chicago and the big time. Now the Aces live in style at Manhattan's Ritz Tower, get a reported...
From California's short-wave KGEI the Army Signal Corps on Bataan now picks up and rebroadcasts some two hours of English programs every day. The stuff begins to come in on Bataan at 5 every afternoon (2 a.m. in San Francisco). It starts with a quarter-hour of straight news. Another quarter-hour is devoted to a roundup of editorial comments from the U.S. Since Bing Crosby's request performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie...
...February 1940, Ezra Pound was heard for the first time on the Rome radio, beamed to America. He became a regular broadcaster on Rome's weekday noon quarter-hour. In his dry, rambling way he extolled "Brother Benito," lashed at Jews, English, the Gold Standard, gunmakers, Roosevelt. U.S. students of short wave bracketed him with barefaced Lord Haw-Haw as another, but more harmless, renegade. Up to December 1941 he was still telling the U.S.-disconnectedl-what Pound wanted: "I want Roosevelt out of post-war matters. Let him stick to North America even if it means diminished...
...boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African informed him that he changed to hunting boots and shorts for every Marais broadcast...
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde early in 1886. At the time he was living in Bournemouth, England, ill with tuberculosis, suffering recurrent hemorrhages of the lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...