Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale officials have reported to Carroll F. Getchell, administrative assistant to the H.A.A., that a play-by-play account of the game on December 1 will in all probability be broadcast over the facilities of the Yankee Network and station WOR in New York. Although the sponsor of the broadcast has not yet definitely been determined, the Yale authorities said that it may be the Atlantic Refining Company, which has done some of the other Yale home contests...
...gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan's station WOR...
...Detroit's motormakers are not wor ried. The U.S. has never cared much for Austin-sized cars; nor will it like the price, upwards of $1,200. But U.S. Distributer John Lawrence Green is optimistic, eventually hopes to sell 25,000 Austins a year...
Manhattan's WOR-Mutual purveys eleven different melodramatic thrillers, principally to juvenile listeners. Recently the station got a letter on the subject: "So very many scripts make facial or bodily disfigurement the synonym for wickedness and brutality. . . . The effect this may have on young America now, with so many of our servicemen returning disfigured, is certainly not the effect such a powerful influence as radio should have." Last week, by executive decree, "scarfaces" and "gimps" had been ruled out of Mutual's children chillers...
Listeners to WOR and the Mutual Net work last week heard a marine's-eye view of the fight for Peleliu. The narrator was shy, wry Sergeant Alvin Flanagan, Ma rine combat correspondent and ex-WOR (Manhattan) announcer. Microphone in hand, FM-walkie-talkie strapped to his back, Flanagan landed on the beach at Peleliu with the ist Marine Division, describing the scene as he went. His account went to an associate aboard a Marine transport offshore, where it was recorded for last week's broadcast...