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Sirs: Oh boy!-Am I glad! Was I thrilled!-A big hand to the Editors of TIME and also to Columbia Broadcasting Co. for their co-operation in restoring the TIME program to the radio. I am sure that I am just one of a vast audience who feels this way about the most interesting program ever broadcast over the radio. ANNETTE ROBIN...
Soon after his consecration, Bishop Spellman was received privately by Pope Pius XI, whose words he had often translated into English, notably in the first international papal broadcast last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large...
...Manhattanites when Leopold Stokowski shook his frizzy blond locks over it for the first time. Audiences did not always actually like the new music; but there was the exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that the dials he twiddled were fake ones, hooked up with nothing at all by radio men who were taking no chances. But the customers loved it, especially the fluttering ladies...
Religion by radio is usually a routine medley of sermons, prayers, hymns, sacred music by soloists and choristers. Occasionally it is colorful, as when a Eucharistic Congress or the dedication of a cathedral is broadcast. Religious talks, like those of Los Angeles' Rev. Robert Pierce ("Bob") Shuler and Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, are often embarrassing and distasteful to churchmen. Last fortnight, for the second time, religion went on the air purely & simply as news. When National Broadcasting Co. decided to build up a "Lowell Thomas of Religion," it went straight to young Dr. Stanley Hoflund High...
...eclipse will be total for at most 100 seconds, close to 3:30 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. The U. S. Naval Observatory will broadcast special radio signals from Arlington and Annapolis. WGY, Schenectady and WCSH, Portland, Me. will rebroadcast. Canadian National Railways Station CNRO, Ottawa will also broadcast. The day will probably be poor for radio reception because some sunspots are due to blow open Aug. 28 and 29. Sunspots always disturb radio communications...