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Conductor Stokowski knew from experiments in Paramount's and Walt Disney's studios what scientific design could do for acoustics. He went into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...
From Down Under there rose a cry that should have roused the fight in the entire U.S. public. It came from Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, a onetime mild-mannered trade-union journalist who in his country's greatest hour of need found words that rolled like Walt Whitman's: "We have no limits. . . . We have no qualms. . . . We will not yield a yard of our soil. . . . We fight with what we have and what we have...
Appearing in Walt Disney's short, "The New Spirit," Donald will be preceded on the program by Dr. John T. Dunlop, Faculty instructor in Economics, and Francis B. Sayre, Jr., assistant rector of Christ Church. In addition, a news reel of the raid on Pearl Harbor and a motion picture on "America's Call to Arms" will be shown...
...feature speeches by the Reverend Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Christ Church and John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics. A motion picture, "America's Call to Arms", and a news reel of Pearl Harbor will be shown, while Donald Duck will make his plea for generosity through Walt Disney's latest cartoon "The New Spirit...
Featured in the second part of the program was a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman. In 1938 it was awarded the World Fair choral composition prize. Other numbers included four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Bella Helene," folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delany, and three Bach chorales...