Word: radio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheels Down. The young traffic controller looked into the sky over the distant roofs of Alexandria, southeast of the field, and saw the fighter circling at 5,000 feet. He switched to its radio channel, told its pilot too to circle the field in the left-hand traffic pattern. He got no acknowledgment. As the transport began its final turn, the men in the tower saw a fearful sight-the fighter, wheels down, was streaking straight in for the same runway on which the DC-4 was about to settle down...
...optimism heard at The Hague found only a faint echo some 8,000 miles away at Jogjakarta, the makeshift capital of the Indonesian Republic. As news of the agreement crackled in over the shortwave radio last week, there was increasing discontent among the nationalists. A leader of the Labor Party summed up their complaints: "Too many concessions to the Dutch...
With the race wide open, a bumper field of 31 horses paraded to the post at beautiful Flemington course. There were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...
Last week two notable local citizens publicly announced their conversion. War hero and onetime Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, 32, accompanied by his wife, hurried down the aisle. Said he: "From now on, I am going to be an honest-to-God Christian." Stuart Hamblen, radio star (cowboy band) also announced his "return to the teachings of Christ," and offered his string of seven race horses for sale...
...determinedly friendly Norman Brokenshire, who has been on radio almost as long as static, has lost his faith in his trade only once. In 1926, after two years as a staff announcer on New York's WJZ, he left radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...