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From Bratislava: "I have seldom heard so much truth about the fate of the Jews as in your broadcast ... we never hear such manly words about humanity here...
...They want [an editor] who cannot read or write, make a speech, a broadcast, or walk. What they want is a mummy, a dummy and a 'flummy...
Last year the Hummerts began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...
...last week British Broadcasting Corp. staged a unique and peculiarly British program, a broadcast strictly for dogs. This was the sort of thing decorous Director-General Sir John Reith might have forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...
What came over was a broadcast by trained dogs from a kennel at Worplesdon, run by a Mr. and Mrs. Robert Montgomery. The program called for the Montgomerys to put their dogs through a set of paces and commands considered generally familiar to most well-behaved British dogs. As an audience participating stunt, "Calling All Dogs" proved a yelping success...