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Wendell Willkie was preparing to leave in the midst of rumor-that he would broadcast from London with Harry Hopkins (denied), that he would become the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (denied). He was going, by his own account, because he wanted to be able to speak with more authority in making clear to the U. S. the importance of the defense of Britain, and he was going at a moment when the professional politicians of the Republican Party were charging him with betrayal, and his party seemed more gravely the split, over the issue...
Annoyed by radio's Oberon-&-Titania quarrel was many a big-league radio showman who agreed with the description of B. M. I. as "a pain in the ASCAP." ASCAP's President Gene Buck complacently permitted the BMIred networks to broadcast such patriotic ballads as Stars and Stripes Forever, Anchors Aweigh and God Bless America at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile Arthur Murray introduced B. M. I. tunes in his dancing schools, on the theory that his customers would have to learn them if they wanted to practice by radio at home. Among the sillier consequences...
...unusual circumstances, the picture leaps into the middle of the heated U. S. argument between isolationists and interventionists. It shows shots of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Representative Vito Marcantonio and ex-Editor Verne Marshall (see col. 1) denouncing the President's foreign policy, Franklin Roosevelt delivering his recent broadcast to the nation and his message to Congress, Dr. George Gallup commenting on the ballots which showed that 60% of the U. S. public favor increased aid to Britain even at the risk...
...night last November in the sub-basement of London's Broadcasting House, BBC Commentator Bruce Belfrage began to broadcast a summary of the news. Well aware was Newscaster Belfrage that somewhere over his head lay an unexploded bomb. Just as he was finishing his talk, saying "The postscript tonight-" there was a muffled explosion. Its vibrations were still audible when listeners heard an urgent voice whisper, "It's all right," and Belfrage wound up his talk amid ominous background noises. Meanwhile in BBC's overseas department, a broadcast in German went placidly on with only...
...Premier, in a nationally broadcast address, told his people they must forever be ready to fight unless they wish to be "doomed to slavery." In his speech, however, were several friendly and complimentary references to the great powers" Germany and Italy...