Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...
...ultimatum from the Commons, showed that the CBC made a profit on only 17 of 102 shows produced during a typical March week. Largest subsidy-wherein only $9,678 of the total cost of $30,132 was paid by sponsors-went to a Canadian version of the longtime U.S. radio and TV Hit Parade show...
...commercial that richly deserves to be part of Cavalcade was heard last week on Reno, Nev. radio stations. It sounded like one of the Viceroy ("Thinking Man's Filter'') playlets...
People's Choice. By the time he got back to Germany in 1953, Manfred Petz had changed his name to Freddy Quinn. He began to play nightclubs and pick up TV and radio spots, then he recorded Heimweh. "The people," says he, "discovered me." Freddy has already made another record. Heimatlos (Homeless), which has hit the 1,000,000 mark, has still another, Die Gitarre und das Meer (The Guitar and the Sea), that is climbing fast and was released in the U.S. last week. He has three hit movies behind him and a turn-of-the-century Hamburg...
...bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms. Until that happens, which may not be soon, they must be content with shreds of information picked up in other ways. Jupiter sends out fairly powerful radio waves, which first seemed to indicate that the temperature of the atmosphere is surprisingly high: up to 1,000° F. Odder still, the temperature apparently fluctuates over a wide range...