Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Reason for this outcry from the Western Wilds is TIME of May 6, "Two U. S. listening posts make it their business to hear almost the whole works," of Europe on the air. The two: CBS listening post and Princeton Listening Centre. The omitted fact: my listening post has operated since January 1939, that is, before CBS started; and published a day-by-day analysis since Oct. 10, 1939, or before Princeton got under way. It also provided the bulk of the material incorporated in Propaganda Via Shortwave (Feb. 26) by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis...
...same person. . . . The trouble is that the important stuff is strewn at random among the trash, and lots of times discernible only by its absence, as in the case of the "Allied change of mind." To get weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only one quarter of an ear but that time everybody but me thought he had big news...
Filed in his fourth-floor office in the CBS building in Los Angeles are the names of 3,500 faithful Wiley worshipers, all good members of the Protective League. When a new sponsor approaches him with a product, Wiley turns it over to 50 of his housewives for testing. They have rejected about half of the products thus offered, have never given him a bum steer. Asked to spiel for a quick-drying floor wax, he tried it on his own floors, reported candidly over the air next day: "This is a good wax, and it's as good...
...Educational program and quiz: Information Please (replacing, in the first category, CBS's American School...
...things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What a droll coincidence!" Working overtime last week was Germany's English broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw, tentatively identified as William Joyce, Anglo-American-Irish fascist (TIME, March 11). CBS listeners picked up a typical Haw -Haw news bulletin following the Scandinavian invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have left England and were at present on the high seas. These ships were said...