Word: wor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the New York Herald Tribune's able Radio Columnist John Crosby stumbled open-eyed into what is one of radio's largest arsenals of bridge music. Picking his way through the library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on file, under generic titles such as Love, Hate, Conflict, etc., "6,000 bridges,* and believe me [they] run the gamut." Even more to his satisfaction, most of them had also been tagged by their embittered composers with tongue-in-cheek titles "more descriptive than the music...
...WOR specializes in murder," wrote Crosby, "so naturally it has a lusty collection of these bridges." His favorite finds: There's a Face in the Window; Quick! Follow That Car; Macabre, Running Motor; and, for a really gruesome situation, Out of the Dark Valley Came Slimy Crawling Things...
Amateur Musicologist Crosby found that some bridges are just scene shifters: "WOR has one called Big City, another called Bigger City" One all-purpose bridge is called From Here to There Without Fireworks. Some bridges mix both scene and mood: Menacing Humor to Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab...
Promising the viewer "double-feature enjoyment right in his own armchair," Ford Movie Night (Mon. 7 130 p.m., Manhattan station WOR-TV) this week went into direct competition with neighborhood movie theaters...
Dealer Horgan was able to buy so much unbooked time because station WOR-TV has been "dark" two nights a week. Pleased with the advertising impact to be expected from one sponsor taking over a station for a whole evening, Horgan further reported that the films, TV time, agency fees and services of 260-lb. M.C. "Happy" Felton fit into a modest weekly budget...