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World War or Bluff? In a broadcast to U. S. listeners the British Foreign Secretary, long, lean Viscount Halifax, said last week of Munich: "My own conscience is clear. . . . The sufferings of Czechoslovakia would have been far greater had we and they acted otherwise. . . . The Government . . . and the Prime Minister . . . acted rightly...
Broker Dennis advocated severe penalties for radio stations permitting such swing raids. Immediate cause of this protest was a broadcast swing version of Bach's D Minor Toccata. Scolded indignant Mr. Dennis: "By no stretch of the imagination could such performances be tolerated except by people of no discrimination. If this is permitted to go unchallenged, swing renditions of the Mass in B Minor will follow...
Dartmouth's debaters defeated Harvard by a close two to one decision in a debate broadcast over station WAAB yesterday afternoon...
...legal compulsion, but a moral responsibility has Harvard to share her peerless facilities for dispensing knowledge with the general public. University Hall, realizing this, has boldly ventured into the field of adult education with such projects as the public distribution of the American History Reading List and the broadcast of significant faculty lectures...
...station then gets through for a spot news broadcast from an old European border town. The announcer is stationed on a tenement roof and as he waits and fears for the enemy planes to come over, his microphone picks up the incongruous, commonplace sounds and voices of women chattering, of children playing. The 1930s have brought war to the kitchen, casualties to the bedroom floor. Air Raid reflects this horror unforgettably. Sounding like the voice in a newsreel from Madrid, Barcelona, Shanghai, Nanking, Poet Mac-Leish's tensed announcer fills in the waiting time by remarking...