Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This refreshing change from the usual radio salutation prefaced a joint NBC-BBC venture called Atlantic Spotlight, a foretaste of postwar radio entertainment. The half-hour variety show (NBC, Sat., 12:30-1 p.m., E.W.T.), which opened a fortnight ago for an indefinite run, was performed and broadcast simultaneously from London and Manhattan...
...Atlantic Spotlight can get and hold its audience, it has only one enemy to fear: sunspots. The show has to cross the Atlantic by short wave, which needs clear electronic weather...
Argentines knew, and President Ramirez knew, that these were the words of a President who had become a figurehead. El Mercurio put the spotlight on Argentina's real leadership-the Army clique behind Ramirez. It said: "If the tide flows on as now and if there are not international complications, Colonel Perón can be, in a short time, the upmost Caudillo of the Argentine Republic...
This time Curley wriggled under the hottest spotlight he has yet faced- indictment by a Federal grand jury. The charge: Curley and five other men (including Donald Wakefield Smith, a former member of NLRB) used the mails to mulct suckers through a war-contracts racket called Engineers Group, Inc. The company claimed an ability to wangle equally fat contracts for new clients. Fees as high as $9,000 were accepted. Actually, the Government charges: Engineers Group has no advisory board, no contracts, no legal ability to get contracts...
...says Francis Baer is "a comer [who will] cut a big figure in this business." But last week he turned his spotlight upon another of his executives: big, dark, 54-year-old Carl F. Wente, who stepped into a newly created job as senior vice president of Bank of America...