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...words were Sir George Henry Wilkinson's, Lord Mayor of London. He spoke them, not to his own fellow citizens, but to 6,700 New Yorkers. His voice came over a two-way hookup to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall one night last week. The broadcast was the most elaborate benefit performance New Yorkers had ever seen-the U. S. Theatre's Carnival For Britain, staged by the American Theatre Wing of the British War Relief Society...
...crash, while listeners were waiting frantically to find out how many had been killed, Ben Bernie cut loose with a number that ran: "Take a number from one to ten, double it and add a million." Equally inappropriate, if not quite so ghoulish, was a tune that followed the broadcast of Roosevelt's landslide of 1936. That time NBC broke out with Ain't It a Shame...
Schechter once arranged to have Pulitzer Prizewinner Arthur Krock broadcast from the men's room of a hotel. He is frank in describing his troubles with the round-the-world flight of Howard Hughes, which started out as an NBC exclusive, wound up as a field day for CBS and Mutual, which persistently got the jump on Schechter and his crew. He rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being...
Last week with a good deal of hoopla NBC announced that Champion Skier Torger Tokle had agreed to broadcast his sensations while jumping at Lake Placid. Earnestly an announcer described how he was being fitted out with a 15-lb. transmitter, a mike in a mask. Then Torger swished away. There was a faint crunch of snow and nothing more. The champion, it seemed, forgot to talk...
...kick had anyone with FCC's engineering findings. But papers like Manhattan's New York Post screamed long and loud against the squelching of WCNW. Pointing out that WCNW had broadcast Chinese and Negro programs, while WWRL was busy airing Father Coughlin and similar stuff, the Post demanded that the case be reexamined. Last week WCNW's Owner Faske followed suit, requested FCC to reconsider its decision. Although Owner Faske is no chum of FCC, the Commission at week's end wearily prepared again to try to clear the cluttered air around Brooklyn...