Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayland commented that Bernstein "employs a Greek-type chorus of three radio artists to relate--rather unfavorable--the antics of a suburban couple." He added that the piece was especially well adapted to his band, since it is "a combination of modern classical work, a Broadway show, and jazz rhythmic material...
...give himself more supporters. Shawaf flashed word to brother northern commanders to join him; he sent troops to kidnap a British technician and his portable radio transmitter from the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s nearby camp so that his countrymen could be summoned to his side. "O great people," cried the new voice of Radio Mosul, "rise and kill the dictator who has betrayed the revolution's aims!" Knowing which tribesmen in the vicinity could be counted on, Shawaf sent word to the Shammar tribesmen, Bedouins who roam the countryside near the Syrian border. In thousands, the Shammars, clad...
...crucial moment of the revolt came early next morning. Shawaf sent two young pilots in old piston-engined Furies to bomb Radio Baghdad's transmitting station twelve miles north of the capital. They did little damage. But four Iraqi air force planes loyal to Kassem counterattacked Shawaf's top headquarters on a bluff above Mosul. First they bombed it and then came in low to strafe. Six or seven officers were killed. Shawaf, wounded, staggered out of his command post, trying to bandage himself. One of his sergeants, figuring the game was up, finished him off with machine...
WHRB's March series, "German Report," will be rebroadcast during the last week of April. Many favorable comments were received praising the programs narrated by German born Horst Weise. The series presents voices of German leaders from Ulbricht to Hitler, interviews with citizens, recordings from German festivals and radio programs, and a clear anaysis of the present Berlin crisis...
...chief executive reported to the nation by radio and television on the Berlin crisis. He took the expected stand that the United States is not abandoning any rights or deserting a free people but still is ready to negotiate differences...