Word: wor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little consolation the men of Harvard will have from this affair is that Duke broadcasts from the Hurricane nearly every night at 10:45. WNAC, which should be carrying it, does not, only WOR, 700 kilocycles. "Dat ole debbil, he knows...
...radio program of human woes called A. L. Alexander's Mediation Board (WOR-Mutual, Mon., 9:30 E.W.T.) has been sliding along for four years as smoothly as soap opera. Its participants are muddled private citizens willing (for free advice, no pay) to air their troubles in love, marriage, money-the everyday problems of mankind. The advice is given by a jury of three visiting "experts," abetted by the program's originator: earnest, voluble, begoggled Albert Louis Alexander, onetime divinity student, actor, social worker, legman, radio announcer...
When the theater's Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne took to the air last week, the result was added proof that radio acting is a specialized art, that great ability on the stage is no guarantee of a payoff before the microphone. For Russian War Relief (WOR-Mutual) and The Cavalcade of America (NBC) respectively the lusty pair played a Russian metalworker & wife, a Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death...
Highest Crossley-rated Mrs. Know-it-all is a short, voluble bit of human voltage named Bessie Beatty,* a onetime San Francisco newspaper reporter, writer for women's magazines and editor of McCall's. From rough notes, busy Bessie ad libs over Mutual's WOR (11:15-12) on food, books, fashion, war news, people, places. Sometimes she gets kidded by Announcer Dick Willard and Husband Bill Sauter, a quiet, wisecracking ex-actor who contributes a felicitous conjugal note that draws plaintive queries from mismated listeners. Sometimes Bessie whips up half a program with prominent guest interviewees...
Handsome, well-built Clayton ("Bud") Collyer, 34, who plays WOR's Superman, stands six feet high, weighs 165 pounds. Though he lacks the original's bulging muscles and jutting jaw, Supermaniacs who have met him in the flesh were not too rudely disillusioned...