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Brash, bumptious Henry Morgan loves nothing more than to curdle the milk of radio's sacred cows. On his 15-minute comic stint, Here's Morgan (WOR, 6:45 p.m., E.W.T., Mon. through Fri.), he worries the stuffing from many a radio shirtfront, mocks soap operas, commercials, himself, his station. Last week he went to work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone...
...week seven American operas -seldom heard even sandwiched in between Aïdas and Carmens -will be performed in a seven weeks' row -the first cycle of native opera ever to be given in the U.S. Put on in condensed, hour-long versions by Manhattan's station WOR in cooperation with the Treasury Department (to boost war bond sales), broadcast by a nationwide Mutual network (Thursdays, 8 to 9 p.m. E.W.T.), the series is a brainchild of Alfred Wallenstein, WOR's ebullient, businesslike music director...
...music, to canny, brilliant Alfred Wallenstein, musical director of Mutual's Manhattan station WOR, who recognized that for good radio musicianship the distinction between "classic" and "modern" music has ceased to exist...
From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...
...networks were in action-and in a turmoil. The news was beyond the grasp of some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill...