Word: radio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Checking out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center after a lung-cancer operation (TIME, May n), TV-Radio Entertainer Arthur Godfrey, 55, met the press in the most harrowing interview of his life. Pale and shaky, he first tried to carry it off bravely: "Just like I told you when I came in, I feel fine." Though he soon gave way to tears, he still managed to keep his old red head in describing his bout with the malignant growth in his chest. "That damnable" tumor had even adhered to the aorta, great artery from the heart. Sobbing...
...after day in his briefings, Soviet Press Officer Kharlamov repeated his claim that the East Germans had been made full participants-implying diplomatic recognition by the West. On both sides of the Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded...
After a surprised pause the 150 newsmen, used to having celebrities duck tough questions instead of invite them, began firing from the hip. The Shah shrugged off possibilities of a revolution ("the line adopted by Moscow radio"). But he frankly admitted that some tribal chiefs opposed him, although he had recently banned New York Timesman Sam Pope Brewer from Iran for saying as much. Asked about his blacklist of correspondents, the Shah said, "I wonder if even Mr. Sam Pope Brewer could not return to Iran...
Making his Broadway debut. Radio Disk Jockey Richard Hayes is a personable and vocally authoritative Brad, but the show suffers from a split personality. In Act I, it hunts with the hipsters; in Act II, it dines by candlelight with the squares. By musical's end, the satiric fumes have evaporated, and The Nervous Set has merely settled down...
This vision of the future is not science fiction but a serious project announced this week by Raytheon Manufacturing Co., maker of all types of radar. Raytheon believes it has achieved the longtime dream of engineers: the transmission of electrical power by radio waves...