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William Primrose (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Red). No. i Viola Virtuoso plays William Walton's Concerto with NBC Symphony under direction of BBC's Sir Adrian Boult...
...sensitive ear tired of being buttered with effete Oxfordese, Professor Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to British Broadcasting Corp., recommended that the BBC's radio talkers copy the diction of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It is disturbing," snorted Professor James, "when a man stands with his back to the 'fah,' and announces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs...
Paced by the perfect performances of Elaine Fraser and Arthur Cantor in a Harvard-Radcliffe team of six men and two women yesterday outspelled a similarly composed Oxford aggregation in a radio bee broadcast over WBZ and BBC...
...British Broadcasting Corp., during the great Coronation Naval review at Spithead last May, was shocked into cutting off the air an announcer who burbled "Damme! The fleet is all lit up!" (TIME, May 31). The offense which moved the censors on that occasion was obviously against sobriety. Last week BBC exercised its power of censorship again and Grey Owl, famed Ojibway of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, who a few days earlier had lectured in Buckingham Palace before Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, stalked out of BBC's studios rather than submit to censorship of his remarks...
Regarding the choice of a prominent person to introduce the speakers, the following paragraph from a BBC letter to the Oxford group is quoted...