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...refrained from making known your position on the Third Term issue." Correspondent Browne had written and rewritten his question so that it would not provoke a wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention's permanent organization was completed. He broke into loud laughter as they rushed off with the sensational news that the secret...
...Lord Halifax broadcast Britain's answer to the world, his voice was deep, full of religious feeling, hollow and lonely as an empty church. It was not a voice to inspire fury, but it did instill hope, a sense of justice, a calmness of conscience. Said...
Last week Broadcast Music Inc., a new music organization set up by National Association of Broadcasters to crack ASCAP's tune monopoly (TIME, Sept. 25), had 52 arrangers at work. Gleaning the public domain, B. M. I. picked up 150 most popular pieces (Dixie, Home, Sweet Home, Strauss waltzes, etc.), began turning out new arrangements of them which may be used free by anyone who buys the sheet music. B. M. I. orchestrations, "cross-cued" so that they could be played by a group of any size, were offered to the trade as better suited to modern microphone technique...
Chicago was a pioneer with the "standby" system, by which outside union men playing in its radio stations must either join the union local or pay a thumb-twiddling local musician to stand by. Jimmie Petrillo forbade Chicago men to make phonograph records which might be broadcast. He saw to it that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul...
Reactions to the BBC broadcasts to date indicate that English small fry are not much interested in military strategy, are not morbidly appalled by fearful human slaughter. They like to hear reports of exciting sea battles, are intense in their concern for young refugees. Most overwhelming response to any broadcast was the profound shock that greeted the news that all German dogs were to be immediately destroyed...