Word: radiomen
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Fortunately for radiomen's peace of mind, the show is recorded, and the rapt studio audience thunderously liked whichever way Mahalia sang a song. She has a surge, vitality and emotional genuineness that crackles across her listeners like electricity. When the audience began cheering and stamping, Mahalia warned them: "Don't you start that or we'd tear this studio apart. You got to remember, we're not in church...
...group of radiomen fearfully hired Alfred Politz Research, Inc. to find out if anyone was still listening to radio in the nation's TV areas. Last week they were crowing about the results...
...stories were not written by Russian propagandists or by permanent correspondents in Moscow, who sometimes sound the same (see below). They were the handiwork of a group of U.S. radiomen and newsmen who had unexpectedly been allowed to enter Russia. Mostly editors and publishers of small-town dailies and weeklies, they were aptly dubbed "The Rover Boys in Moscow" by the New York Post. They wrote about Moscow as if they had never seen a big city...
Last week White, 53, got his biggest assignment. He was named president of NBC, succeeding Joseph H. McConnell, 46, who resigned, reportedly to be president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. White thus became the first man ever to have headed two major networks. Radiomen guessed that RCA-NBC Chairman David Sarnoff is not completely satisfied with NBC's bulky overhead and slowness to fight back against CBS competition, and hopes that White will tune NBC into a better wave length...
Television of games this year was controlled by the NCAA. The important question now is whether or not the televising of football games really did affect attendance. Writers and radiomen's opinions on this question vary greatly; about half believe that the controlled plan helped while the other half thought that it didn...