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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To most radio listeners, however, a third man in Box 44 is synonymous with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

His main commercial nowadays is Information Please, which is right up his broad alley. For this weekly half-hour, he collects $100 a week from Canada Dry. But since he announces it on NBC's time, the network thriftily docks him three-quarters of an hour's basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Carols at Cherry Hill | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

To get under way, Health Service has raised $3,000 in private contributions. In addition, the Service has the privilege of dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Service, Inc. | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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