Word: thrice-a-week
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...days of peace, the ABC network last week bought a voice that reassured America in the days of war: the crackling1 Hoosier rasp of former OWI chief Elmer Davis. More than 30 advertisers have offered to sponsor his thrice-a-week commentary-at $1,500 a broadcast...
Major Alexander Prokovieff de Seversky, the indefatigable exponent of Victory Through Air Power, next week takes wing in a new field. He will write a thrice-a-week column on air tactics and strategy for the McNaught Syndicate. Already signed up: 85 papers, including a fistful of big ones (New York Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Washington Star, Chicago Herald-American, Pittsburgh Press...
...Roosevelt likes to ask young musicians to perform at the White House, and young musicians naturally like to be asked. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt put on "An Evening of Songs for American Soldiers." Six of the black and white performers were from a radio program: CBS's thrice-a-week Back Where I Come From, a sustainer devoted to U. S. folk songs. Among the White House guests: the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury & wives, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commandants of Marine Corps and Coast Guard, Mr. Knudsenhillman & wives, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish-whose...
...slaps no backs but never forgets a name or a face. At home in his six-storied London house he claims London's biggest private telephone bill. His work day begins at 5:30. Stopping only for snacks, Augur swiftly turns out his well-turned, exclusive, thrice-a-week Diplomatic Letters, restricted to 72 copies, over which every embassy in London pores. Poliakoff is equally proud of his weekly piece for the provinces, his occasional cabled stories to the New York Times. Somewhere he finds time to write books as varied as The Tragic Bride and Soviets vs. Civilization...