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...Nazis permit Poland only two newscasts a day, broadcast from Berlin. No longer does Goebbels bother to write local programs for stations in Norway, Belgium and Occupied France. Local Quislings do that...
...full week of arduous working days and brooding nights, even giving up a weekend in his beloved Hyde Park, to work on his draft-amendment message. Never before had he broadcast a message to Congress unless he delivered it in person, but this time he called the major broadcasting chains to the White House, had them record his speech for replaying as soon as his written message had gone to the Capitol...
...Belgian refugee named Victor de Laveleye first had the idea. In a shortwave broadcast from London to his countrymen he asked them to chalk the letter V (for victoire) in public places as a sign of confidence in their deliverance...
...Canadian Bernarr Macfadden; of cancer; near Toronto. Food faddist and exercise enthusiast for some 30 years, he said "God has provided the means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...
...Brass Rail boys have always played hot, intricate, free-ranging music, without ever making much money from it. Benny Goodman dressed Chicago jazz up, quieted it down and turned it to profit. Returning to Chicago this week to play at the Hotel Sherman and broadcast a big commercial series (for Holland Furnace Co.), Benny Goodman could still call himself "King of Swing," although he would not want to. For one thing, he is now a concert artist, not the least of whose achievements is to convince the young that there must be something good about Mozart...