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...worst pea soup fog in three decades descended on London. It was not the fog, however, which brought tears to British eyes and lumps to millions of British throats. Loyal subjects, drawn in sympathy to King George VI as never before, heard His Majesty bravely make a Christmas broadcast, his halting voice strained with emotion. In effect what the King had to tell his people was that the great effort to overcome his speech impediment, an effort which he has made for years and, which carried him through his Coronation without skipping or mispronouncing a single word (TIME...
Always hanging over His Majesty's head has been the dread of his next broadcast. Last week he took the short, courageous way out, speaking clearly-with long halts between his accurately pronounced words-to his 493,370,000 subjects...
...symphony conductors cost so much? If it comes to that, why is a conductor? These questions may well have been pondered by R. C. A. stockholders last January when their pudgy President David Sarnoff sent envoys to Milan to induce Maestro Arturo Toscanini to conduct ten broadcasts with the projected NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Feb. 15). Conductor Toscanini asked and got a contract for $4,000 per broadcast, probably the highest price ever paid a conductor. At the behest of plump, practical Signora Toscanini, it was also stipulated that NBC should buy the Maestro a round-trip ticket from Italy...
Sexational, robustious Cinemactress Mae West appeared on a commercial broadcast for the first time in four years. Result: the most indignant wave of protest from radio listeners in radio's history. Cause: Miss West had turned the Biblical story of Adam & Eve into a burlesque act full of drawling double-entendres, elliptical references to fig leaves and nakedness, talk of the "original applesauce." No sooner had the program closed than angry comments began to pour in to the sponsors (Chase & Sanborn), the broadcasting company (NBC), the advertising agents (J. Walter Thompson). The National Legion of Decency threatened to clean...
...Aranyi, grandniece of Joachim, had "discovered" the existence of the "lost" concerto while interviewing Schumann's ghost at a spiritualist seance. Miss D'Aranyi wanted the performing rights for herself, had announced that she would give the world premiere of the concerto in London with the British Broadcasting Co. Orchestra in October. Nazi authorities, seeing the honor of an important premiere slipping from under their noses, decreed that the concerto should be introduced to the world in a broadcast by Violinist Georg Kulen-kampff in Germany. The Nazi fiat was carried out November...