Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...series of hearings which began in Detroit last week may help decide how free a radio station is to broadcast what it pleases. The Federal Communications Commission is investigating charges that a station owner ordered his employees to slant the news to discredit people and groups such as the Roosevelt family and the Roosevelt and Truman administrations...
...Army discovered his versatility quickly. In 18 months of service life "Mal" had to work in Special Service in languages, lead a Wac chorus, act as a camp movie critic, edit a camp newspaper, and do a regularly-scheduled radio broadcast for the Army...
...election returns from Michigan sounded like a Kentucky Derby broadcast by Clem McCarthy. Soon after they got off, rugged ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, who lost a leg in World War I, slipped ahead. By midevening, he was out front by 41,000 votes. By breakfast time next morning, young (39) Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams, heir to a soap fortune and undeviating friend of organized labor, was only 9,000 behind and coming up fast...
Last week an extraordinary theory of the universe, developed chiefly by the Hoyle & Lyttleton team, ranked as a leading conversation piece in British intellectual circles. It was more than that; broadcast by radio, spread by a bestselling book,* debated in learned societies, it was bidding for a place among Britain's most striking contributions to modern scientific philosophy. It was, of course, also being attacked. Nothing so daring had appeared in the field of cosmology since the early '30s, when Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington led man's imagination out among the "island universes...
From Slingshot . . . French Communists took the Goliath position, registered tolerant amusement at David's slingshot declaration of total psychological war on Communism. They were less amused one evening recently when a surprise Paix et Liberté broadcast came over the state-run radio at 8 p.m., France's peak listening hour. Hundreds of thousands of listeners heard David give French Communist Boss Maurice Thorez one of the roughest dressings-down that he had ever suffered. Paix et Liberté's free time on the air had been arranged by Premier René Pleven...