Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the transaction, WBMS has gone toward the black--and, in the opinion of many of its listeners, gone downhill as well. Its programs rely heavily on the playing of short, and often inferior Rombergish selections, and are surfeited with mediocre commercials. Longer symphonic works mean less space for commercial plugs, and have therefore dropped to second place in programming. Listener reaction has been sharp: "The trouble is," says Program Director John Thornton, "that people expect a lot, and give nothing in return. When the Endowment Series was discontinued, we received over a thousand letters from our listeners...
...present boatful merely wants a means of locomotion. They have presented their proposition to the boatmen at Harvard and MIT, but so far they have not been accomodated. They refuse to ask Wellesley for a boat loan, for should they get the boat they would have no storage space on the Charles...
Browder was kicked out of the party. Just to keep him on ice, Moscow commissioned him to act as an agent in the U.S. for Soviet publishers. In a one-room office on 42nd Street, he smoked his pipe and stared into space, loyally mumbling the line that the assassination of his character was only an "incidental of a political struggle." It was as close to accuracy as Comrade Browder ever...
...Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned how to keep our copy short." Stories had to be chopped well down, because larger VariType faces take more space than linotype...
Indoor Drainage. The most startling feature of Breuer's house was the "butterfly roof" which made space for a second-story bedroom under one wing and (by substituting a single indoor drainpipe) did away with outside gutters and drains. Despite such practical advantages, traditionalists might object that the tilting roof gave the inside of the house a slightly seasick air. Like the exterior walls, the ceilings were largely finished with unpainted cypress siding, which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring...