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...Orson Welles, in his now famous broadcast of October 30. 1938, had announced not that the Martians had landed in New Jersey, but that a mosquito called Anopheles gambiae, a native of Africa, had arrived on the American continent, there would have been no public alarm. . . . But Anopheles gambiae is potentially a much more dangerous invader than the Martians would have been. H. G. Wells's Martians, it will be remembered, were unable to adjust themselves to life on this planet and quickly died...
...religious drama was submitted to NBC which gave its executives quite a turn. Called The Living God, translated from the French of Cita and Suzanne Mallard, the program attempted to take its hearers back to Jerusalem during the last days of Jesus Christ, whose Passion and Resurrection were supposedly broadcast by an announcer with a portable microphone. Even in a toned-down version this drama scared NBC. But when it was finally broadcast in Holy Week, under the auspices of the National Council of Catholic Men, The Living God was widely praised, nowhere condemned. Next week, again in collaboration with...
...well-paid staff of 65, pays salaries of $50 to $100 a week to unit performers (now numbering about 100), foots the bill for musicians, producers, coaches, unit booking, management and traveling expenses. To each of the 20 or so amateurs chosen each week for the broadcast from among 500 selected applications he gives $10 and all the performer can eat on the evening of the broadcast. The Major's net is a secret closely guarded by the Major and his militantly loyal staff, but radio is agreed that it is a pretty penny, probably no less than...
...route for New York Saturday, the Club will perform first at the Harvard Club in that city. After stops in Syracuse and Cleveland, the group will sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts. As a special feature, there will be a broadcast at Rochester, thus bringing to a close nine days crammed with activity...
...Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid account of a revolution in London, complete with Big Ben Tower blown up, the National Gallery ablaze. Famed at Oxford is "Ronnie" Knox's reply to a fellow-undergraduate who wrote the Hegelian limerick...