Word: radio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week 55-year-old Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail...
...while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia Komad, got the lightest sentence-three years. The prosecution claimed that she had been Kryshkov's mistress, charged her with wartime collaboration with the Germans...
...This World. For his half-hour programs of folk song and plain song, interspersed with religious talks, Argentina's Radio Belgrano paid Fray José a record 60,000 pesos ($6,750) for eight broadcasts. But the money no longer went for the upkeep of lavish homes in California and Mexico. Fray José, bound by a vow of poverty, had turned it over to a Franciscan seminary now abuilding in Arequipa, Peru...
When Frank Waldrop, editor of the Washington Times-Herald, came home for dinner one evening last fortnight, his ten-year-old son Andrew had exciting news: "Harry Hopkins was a spy!" The boy had been listening to Fulton Lewis Jr.'s radio interview with ex-Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether...
...name of Munch was not big in U.S. music. He had visited for the first time in the 1946-47 season, to be guest conductor in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; in 1948 he had conducted the French National (Radio) Orchestra on its U.S. tour. Although he had won respectful notices from critics, his name had seldom appeared in the calculations of the pundits and prophets who wanted to call the tune on Boston's new conductor. From the time 75-year-old Conductor Serge Koussevitzky announced that he would abdicate...