Word: radiomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radiomen regard Grauer as one of the glibbest ad-libbers on the air. But like all announcers, he has had his share of slips. His favorite printable one was a spoonerism. After guiding the late Carrie Chapman Catt through a difficult broadcast, Grauer turned to her in relief and said, all too clearly, "Thank you, Mrs. Catt, we are deepful grately...
...Prague, the Ministry of Information warned foreign correspondents to "rely mainly on official sources" in reporting the news from Communist-captured Czechoslovakia (see INTERNATIONAL).Next day, outright censorship began: foreign radiomen lost their broadcasting privileges, and 27 foreign publications (including TIME, LIFE, the Chicago Tribune, the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror) were banned from the country...
...Radiomen who like radio the way it is have an outraged squeal of their own ("Narrowcasting!") at the whole idea. "This plan," they charge, "destroys freedom of the air! . . .It introduces a poll tax into radio." To which one SRadioman has replied, "On the contrary. . . . Those who don't wish to pay 5? a day will have their full share of advertising-sponsored programs. . . . The greater the choice afforded the listener the greater the freedom...
Some of the major producers, among them R.C.A. and Philco, were still holding out, but few radiomen thought that they would for long. The price-cutting fever had also infected the television business.* The big news came from Admiral Corp.'s hard-hitting President Ross D. Siragusa, who parlayed a backroom radio shop into the fourth biggest radio business in the country. Last week, he came out with a table television receiver (seven-inch screen), retailing at $169.95, the cheapest ever to go on sale...
...Radiomen, who vie viciously with one another to decorate their Christmas programs with boughs of Hollywood, admit that they have all been outvied this season by a boyish Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. Patrick Peyton had under his Christmas tree two of radio's choicest sugarplums: his popular, weekly Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual), with a performance of Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, and a special, Peyton-inspired, star-studded dramatization of the Nativity, The Joyful Hour, aired last week...