Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complicated tonsillectomy during high school dropped her voice an octave, and she began singing the blues. Rudy Vallee heard her and helped her to Manhattan, where she ended up on WOR sustaining after CBS and NBC had turned her down...
...difficulties in recording the actual sounds of battle were discussed last week by WOR-Mutual's Warcaster Dave Driscoll. He went to the Mediterranean with a portable recording outfit, intending to get the pandemonium of war on disks for rebroadcasting to the U.S. home front. But, said he last week...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
...Laurie Jr., 50, who have wisecracked their collective way through no years of U.S. vaudeville, formal banquets, benefits, railroad smokers, etc. Their bow to Joe Miller was also a pat on the back for their radio program, Can You Top This? (NBC, Sat., 9:30-10 p.m.; WOR, Wed., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T...
...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...