Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively mild labor-reform bill sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat John Kennedy, was tickled pink when Ike confided: "If I'd been in the Senate, I'd have voted with you." Last month, when labor-reform legislation was at bitter issue in the House, Ike went on radio and television to urge a strong bill. He immensely enjoyed going over the drafts of his speech, and he took special pleasure in trying to outfox the Democratic opposition: he deliberately inserted a statement that, since he was barred from seeking reelection, he could only be speaking in the public interest...
Into the Highlands. That evening the President left Bonn, sent a farewell message over his jet's radio to Konrad Adenauer: DEAR FRIEND-I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW GRATEFUL I AM. An hour and a half later, he was at London Airport, shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In an off-the-cuff arrival speech that brought murmurs of appreciation from the crowd, the President said: "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which...
...Charm (circ. 635,706) with Conde Nast's Glamour (circ. 671,441), will otherwise keep the firm intact as a subsidiary of Conde Nast. Street & Smith lost better than $200,000 last year, but this is a condition that Sam Newhouse, whose 14 newspapers and seven radio and TV stations comprise a productive $175 million chain, intends to correct...
...Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, riding the crest of the boom, reported its own record, a two-week nonholiday gross of $404,056, for Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, well over the total of runner-up High Society. Additional Music Hall intelligence: Northwest's star, Gary Grant, is the Music Hall's male favorite; he has appeared there in 23 pictures that ran for a total of 75 weeks. Closest male competitor: Fred Astaire, with 14 pictures, 48 weeks...
Military historians have recorded the tactics-an airdrop too far north of the main body at Arnhem, bad communications because of radio breakdowns, not enough air support in foggy weather, the capture of the complete Allied battle plan by the Germans. But it remains for Daniel Paul,*then 29, a captain-surgeon with the 16th Parachute Field Ambulance, to tell the personal story of that terrible battle. It is, he says, a story that "demanded to be written." He tells it deftly and quickly-as he would suture a wound...