Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Soviet Union's version, the Government of the U.S.S.R. happened to hear about the new "People's Government of the Finnish Democratic Republic" over the radio, had its manifesto translated, was very much impressed by it and in a jiffy the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet recognized...
...Italy. According to him, Benito Mussolini wants, along with big territorial items, $360,000,000 in cash for joining the Allies. This story was cut by British censors in its transmission to the U. S. Not tampered with at all was a widely publicized (and not particularly Cockburn) version of the attempted Hitler assassination, which ended with the conclusion that the assassins were "near-Göring bomb layers"-i.e., accomplices of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, successor to the Führer...
...best new numbers is Mene, Mene, Tekel, a rousing piece of Biblical hotcha. Another is Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, a funnier burlesque than the usual beer-&-pretzels music-hall version, which achieves "social significance" through its injunction to the innocent Bertha that "it's better with a union man." Best number in the show is The Harmony Boys, in which Father Coughlin, Fritz Kuhn and Senator Reynolds go into an uproarious song-&-dance, muttering lines like these of Fritz...
...originator of Information Please. An editorial board of Manhattan literati helps him sift them each week, picking tough ones, tossing out triteness or trouble. Current politics, controversies, affairs, etc., are generally taboo. Biblical allusions are out, too, ever since John Kieran attributed a bit of Scripture to "the Bronx version," and brought on a flood of sanctimonious protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison...
...American history programs, the Radio Workshop is preparing special experimental broadcasts, one of them a script of the poetic drama "Inquest" by Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer in English. Several members of the Workshop are working on individual script projects. Last spring the group produced and recorded a version of Sophocles' "Antigone" in collaboration with the World Wide Broadcasting experts...