Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broadcasting for CBS from Algiers, Charles Collingwood said that Giraud's arrest of twelve alleged co-conspirators in the Darlan case was part of a new struggle for power-"not only over North Africa but over the future of France...
...Blue's unexpected aggressiveness raised many an eyebrow at stolid NBC, parental RCA. It gave advertisers special discounts, charmed them by other commercial wrinkles. It gleefully violated NBC's and CBS's ban on transcribed programs. This move was regarded as almost treasonable because the two big chains figure that live shows are their stock in trade. Big, live shows are expensive, but distinctive...
Married. Major George Fielding Eliot, 48, CBS war commentator, New York Herald Tribune columnist, author (The Ramparts We Watch); and June Mabel Johnston Cawley Hynd, till recently a director of women's programs for NBC; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...Swing predicted Hitler would either retire or be ousted by the German Army. Author Fletcher Pratt said only a miracle could save Russia "from utter defeat." Foreign Correspondent John T. Whitaker limb-climbed with a flat forecast that the Nazis would invade Spain and Portugal in the spring. Ex-CBS Berlin Newscaster Harry Flannery agreed with him, added the Azores and Canary Islands. For the same year Adolf Hitler promised the German people "the greatest victory in our history...
...Chicago Sun's solemn little Chester Morrison last week had recovered sufficiently from a minor accident in Libya to broadcast this philosophic item over CBS...