Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case involved the little Apennine mountain village of Filetto di Camarda, 100 miles northeast of Rome. In 1944, Defregger was a captain in command of an intelligence company in the area. On June 7 of that year, Italian partisans had shot at least one German soldier in a radio transmitter unit of his company. According to Defregger's own account in Der Spiegel, there had been four victims, not one; the division commander retaliated by ordering the captain to "pick up 20 to 22 local men in the 20-to-50 age group and execute them." Eventually...
Died. Howard Luck Gossage, 51, offbeat adman, who was one of the first to demonstrate that copywriting can be low-key, literate and fun; of leukemia; in San Francisco. Gossage, a onetime radio adman, and Partner Joseph Weiner opened a small West Coast firm in 1957 and proceeded to break all the rules, often pussyfooted so softly that it was hard to tell just what they were selling. For an Oregon brewer they campaigned to "Keep Times Square Green"-with Oregon trees; for Paul Masson brandy they knocked vodka ("If you can't see it, taste it, or smell...
...church choir, then joined the Chicago Civic Opera in 1924 and learned more than 20 complete roles in her first year. By 1929 she was with the Met, winning acclaim for her roles in Norma, Faust, Lakme, Romeo and Juliet and particularly Carmen. Between performances, she popularized opera on radio, starred in movies, and went on innumerable concert tours. "There is a feeling, particularly around New York," she once said, "that audiences around the country want only the potboilers and insist on them. This simply isn't true...
...fans no longer have to rely on memory. The man who became his era's favorite radio disk jockey, then gave television Garroway at Large and launched the Today show is back at work in a 90-minute, late-morning local show in Boston...
After spending a student summer in Nyasaland in 1962, Kroeker wrote Prime Minister Hastings Banda to offer his services to the government-run radio station. When Banda accepted, Kroeker headed back with his hi-fi set, a homemade motor bike and 200 lbs. of spare radio parts. Three years ago, with $32,000 in locally raised capital, he founded the Nzeru Radio...