Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saudi Arabia. One man Murphy did not see was Nasser's commander in chief, General Abdel Hakim Amer. General Amer was absent on a flying visit to Saudi Arabia where he dined with King Saud, who six months ago was being blasted by Radio Cairo for having "plotted" the assassination of Nasser. Now the Cairo spokesmen cooed that Amer's visit was aimed at "purifying the Arab horizon...
...join in one big family dominated, naturally, by Nasser and Egypt. If Iraqis in the new Cabinet longed to keep oil royalties inside their own borders, they had to be mindful of the Baghdad street mobs that cheer Nasser's photograph, and absorb the lies and fury of Radio Cairo...
...most seriously disturbed, for Red penetration of Cambodia would outflank his nation and give the Communist Chinese access to the Gulf of Siam. Diem rushed his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh to negotiate a settlement of the border question, and the Cambodian radio announced that terms had been discussed in a "relaxed atmosphere." Sihanouk promised, as soon as he returns from his current junket to Peking, to pay a visit to President Diem in Saigon...
...Gamble. When asked about Jack Paar, the late Fred Allen once said: "Oh, you mean the young man who had the meteoric disappearance." A year ago the description still fitted Paar, sometime minor movie actor and perennial radio-TV summer replacement. He had done well with a radio program and a daytime television show of his own, but never well enough to make it big. One TV executive dismissed him as strictly a "pipe and slipper type." What happened next is told by NBC's Board Chairman Robert Sarnoff: "We faced a critical decision. The America After Dark version...
Balloon Breaker. To last through this kind of performance five nights a week takes a talent spawned by radio, toughened by Hollywood and burnished by the demands of an unforgiving clutch of television cameras. No comedian in the U.S. can boast a more abundant supply of the necessary skills than Jack Paar. He has been practicing them almost all his life...