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...Majesty Queen Elizabeth broadcast from Halifax: "To the people of Canada and to all the kind people in the United States who welcomed us so warmly last week, to one and all on this great, friendly continent, I say thank you, God be with you and God bless you. Au revoir et Dieu vous bénisse...
...last week a panting New York baseball fan, fearing that what he had just heard on the radio might have been another Orson Welles fantasy, telephoned the Columbia Broadcasting studios, asked if they really had broadcast a game between the New York Giants and the Cincinnati Reds. What he had heard: the feeble Giants, who have been flopping around in the second division of the National League all season, had just whammed out seven homeruns in three innings-five of them in one inning, three of them in succession-against the powerful, League-leading Cincinnati Reds...
...Around Theatres, in 1930, was among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
...also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library, the score had gone unperformed for two centuries. A scholar found it last year...
...potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot...