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...five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must face the facts of today. . . . The danger is imminent. ... To meet it we must pledge ourselves anew to fulfill our obligations to the nation, and again avow eternal devotion to the principles of liberty and justice upon which this nation...
...Between air-raid alarms and work few newsmen got any rest. One of the worst off was Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow, who worked a 19½-hour day. After his midnight broadcast he roamed the streets until 4:30 a.m., looking for damage, rose again at 9. In the basement studio where he spoke quietly across the sea, the floor was filled with mattresses on which were sleeping...
Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week...
While they milled around, thousands of spectators jampacked Gowdy's Boathouse, the official weighing-in headquarters. The moment a fish was reeled in, contestants scurried to the boathouse (salmon weigh most when just out of water). There a radio announcer broadcast a weigh-by-weigh description of the catches. At 9 o'clock, when the all-in bomb went off, 75 salmon were lined up on the display table. Largest was a 27-lb., 5-oz. King, boated by a 19-year-old girl, Lily Torkellson of suburban Seattle...
...weeks such plaints have been pouring into Newark's station WOR, addressed to a program called Here's Looking at You. Originated by Pegeen Fitzgerald, erstwhile fashion director in a Manhattan department store, and Richard Willis, onetime cinema makeup man, Here's Looking at You is broadcast twice weekly from New York's World's Fair, features a 15-minute beauty and fashion analysis of studio visitors depressed by their appearance...