Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the pilots, some of the mechanics, radiomen and other groundmen who made up the Group donned the khaki with winged insignia of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Some were already headed home. For some of these, the end had not been altogether pleasant. General Chennault at first had not looked kindly on their going, although he later relented. Two-thirds of the A.V.G.'s pilots had come out of the U.S. Navy, and they did not relish going into the Army any more than the Navy liked the Army's bid for them. But for those...
Hate was not on the Institute agenda. It was not introduced by mild-mannered Writer-Director Norman Corwin, though Corwin, at what was supposed to be a routine discussion of radio drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack...
...membership is now 43,000. Thirty thousand are pilots. The rest are mechanics, radiomen, observers, ground crews. Johnson thinks half the nation's 25,000 private planes are flying for CAP, the remainder available for emergencies. CAP has nine regions (corresponding to Army corps areas), 48 wings, one for each State. Regional commanders in the role of roving inspectors are being commissioned in the Army. Wings are subdivided into groups and squadrons. Women are eligible (but few have applied...
...Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chénier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally...
...radiomen the best thing that happened last week was a half-hour talk to them on a unique closed telephone network (i.e., not on the air) by OFF's Director Archibald MacLeish. Coherent and down-to-earth, Mr. MacLeish dispelled apprehensions, cleared up the "What can I do?" question and told the broadcasters what kind of guidance they could expect from his office henceforth. Among matters soon to be set right by OFF and a Broadcasters' Victory Council in Washington: excessive bunching and repetition of appeals, pep talks, the national anthem...