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From Eire in due course it was reported that bomb fragments and the green parachutes had been examined and indeed found to be of German make. Eire's Charge d'Affaires in Berlin was instructed to protest the bombing, demand full reparations. A British short-wave broadcast crowed: "There is no loophole through which Hitler may wriggle. Pieces of the missiles have been picked up with German identification marks on them. We are forced to one of two conclusions. They either meant it or they didn't. They either intentionally bombed another country, or, and perish...
...first records in San Francisco in 1896-wax cylinders for which he was paid $1 a batch by an Edison dealer. Soon Victor was calling him the "Denver Nightingale." In 1907 Lee De Forest, experimenting in a Manhattan office building, played Billy's record of College Life. The broadcast was accidentally picked up by the chief electrician at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It scared the daylights...
...months ago. Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade was a parade of the only "hits" it was allowed to play-the well-worn There I Go, So You're The One, Frenesi, seven others. These had been frantically cooked up in the past months by the big broadcasters' Broadcast Music, Inc. to broadcast after their contract with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers expired...
...came about because the Crimson-Dartmouth basketball game was being broadcast over the air. The band, which was playing at the game, appeared on the ether purely as an added feature, but that made no difference to the warring warblers...
...Frank Morgan, but the gal who steals the show is an incredible-looking harpy who sings "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" like it ain't never been sung before! The story is one of those back-mike jobs about auditions, and talent, and Orson Welles's Mars broadcast. A few tears are dropped on vaudeville's grave, but the general message is that entertainment will go marching on. "Hullabaloo" is not too strong marching, though...