Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
...Also free to any broadcaster who will use them are the National Association of Manufacturers' two radio programs, items in its $750,000-a-year campaign to get the Government off U. S. business' neck. One of these programs, a dramatic serial called The American Family Robinson, is over four years old, goes out twice a week or oftener over 250 stations by electrical Tanscription, talks Alger-book homilies, free enterprise and the American...
...Variety program: Chase & Sanborn (Bergen, McCarthy, et al.). > Children's program: The Lone Ranger. > Dramatic serial: One Man's Family. > Swing band: Artie Shaw's. > Dance orchestra: Wayne King's. >Educational program: CBS's American School...
...were on the big time air with their side of the story. Their main point: the company agent's functions are so ordered that the best interests of the policyholders must be the agent's, too. Prudential began a five-a-week non-insurance dramatic serial over CBS, called When a Girl Marries, which contents itself with simple commercial testaments to the agent's integrity...
...late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...