Word: welbourn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year of his life, Navy Secretary Frank Knox gave an order to Commander Walter Karig and Lieut. Welbourn Kelley of the department's Office of Public Relations: "Tell the story of the Navy's part in this war . . . particularly those early days, when the Japs were having things their own way, and when we had to examine every scrap of information with a microscope for fear it would be helpful to the enemy." Karig, a reservist and former Washington newsman, and Kelley, former radio scriptwriter and author of a melodramatic novel, So Fair a House, spent months...
...program, recently resigned. Now Milton J. Cross, who likes a little spoofing, burlesques himself. The program notes written for him are rare and irreverent non sense. ("The melody then builds into a five-part harmony with the bassoon wan dering off happily in search of a short beer.") Scripter Welbourn Kelley is now with the Navy, but continues to send in the scripts. Singer Mary Small is the latest in a notable list of "divas" who began with a vocalist named Dinah Shore...
...What the great public calls jazz is mere popular music. ) The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is irreverent in both directions. Announcer Gene Hamilton ("Dr. Gino"), who ordinarily handles such programs as the NBC Symphony and the Firestone hour, solemnly voices puns, non sequiturs (written by Scripter Welbourn Kelley), identifies a composition as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left," or "a small-fry rhapsody with no particular point," or "a slightly undernourished D Minor." Vice presidents seem to fascinate the Society. Once Dr. Gino began: "And as we look at our program (printed on the back...