Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seaboard-the hour of shopping at the supermarket or of getting ready for a business lunch-when word flashed from Rome that a new Pope had been chosen. It was 9:07 a.m. on the West Coast-time to make breakfast or to drive to work-when the flickering radio signal carried the voice of Cardinal Canali announcing, in his soft, Italianate Latin: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum-habemus papam." The press, whose attention for days had been focused on the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel, promptly provided both great clouds and small wisps of facts about...
...receive from the atmosphere in 24 hours. Radioactively speaking, L.A. had thus lived two days in one. But the L.A. radioactivity reading was possibly the highest radioactivity level ever recorded in the continental U.S. outside the test grounds. The miracle of it was that, with all the scare headlines, radio and TV broadcasts, the citizenry had taken it as calmly...
...Radio Moscow, in ten languages, trumpeted that Pasternak had no place in Soviet society, that he was a man who "in spirit has long been a traitor to his country and has now spat in its face." The satellites fell tamely into line as the literary hacks of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania echoed the denunciations by Soviet hacks. Only Antoni Slonimski, head of the cantankerous Polish Writers' Association, sent Pasternak a congratulatory telegram and, at week's end, was still unrepentant...
...while. The optimists hold that Nasser is reluctant to take over Jordan because he would then be burdened by half a million Palestine refugees as well as by the economic load now borne by the U.S. They point out that Nasser recently shut down the "Jordan People's Radio." which from neighboring Syria used to shriek daily for Hussein's assassination. But the revolution in neighboring Iraq showed that those who rise in Nasser's flame often act in ways he may not have intended: a man who sows trouble so indiscriminately reaps some wild harvests...
...soon made his name along ad alley with his whimsical ads for Arrow shirts, Travelers Insurance and Borden's "Elsie the Cow" campaign. In 1943 he was made a copy supervisor and, after two years' service in the U.S. Army, became vice president in charge of radio-TV commercials in 1951, then director of both print and radio-TV copy in 1954. Adman Gribbin, who lives in Greenwich, Conn, and has a farm in Massachusetts, is tall (6 ft. 1 in.), quick-witted and relaxed ("My biggest problem is keeping the sheep fenced in on my farm...