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Life in the Shadow. Under the pall of smoke that turned light clothes grey and made eyes smart, Paris life went on last week. The omnibusses and subways continued to run though less frequently, the radio stations broadcast only martial music interspersed with news bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...
...years ago, in Manhattan, an ex-United Press correspondent, Herbert Samuel Moore, saw big things ahead for news broadcast by radio. Moore raised $150,000, signed up some 125 radio clients for news by teletype and short wave, started Transradio Press Service...
...questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...last week as the Germans marched on Paris, Paul Archinard, NBC's correspondent, sat down at a typewriter in his newly decorated apartment (also NBC Paris office), began to peck out his next scheduled broadcast. Suddenly an air-raid siren screamed, and Archinard, together with his two girl helpers, headed out of the apartment at the double quick. They were huddled in a hallway when several Nazi bombs whammed down upon adjoining buildings, exploded with a crash that blasted doors and windows out of Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White...
...Radioed from Paris scholarly Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the U.S. quarterly Foreign Affairs: "Why is this not the moment for an eminent American aviator to make a broadcast devoted wholly to denouncing aviators who kill women and children in village streets and on country roads and appealing for millions of dollars to enable the American Red Cross to help the survivors...