Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pedagogical premise of CBS's Adult Education Board is that radio's function as an educator is to stimulate rather than lecture. Two years ago this month CBS began a series called Americans at Work, examining and dramatizing a likely selection of the 31,000 U. S. occupations. To date, Americans at Work (Tuesdays, 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. E. S. T.) has kibitzed sandhogs, dynamiters, firemen, cops, cranberry growers, submariners, teachers, cartoon animators, the U. S. Marines, the Coast Guard ice patrol, test pilots, census takers, even game wardens...
...Hollywood, the CBS backstagers found famed Producer Earl Carroll and his hand-picked girls rehearsing at Paramount for A Night at Earl Carroll's. He introduced two, Ann Barrisford, right from Hollywood, and Morine Howell, a college-bred cutie from Utah. Said Producer Carroll, "I have come to the conclusion that brown-eyed girls have better figures than blue-eyed girls...
...quiz program, for Chocolate Products Co. (syrup), over a CBS California network 10 to 10:30 a.m. P.S.T. Saturdays : Stillicious Kids' Quizaroo. Sample poser: Shirley Temple is an ancient Greek ruin. True or false...
...PEOPLE" AS "SANKA COFFEE'S TUESDAY-NIGHT ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR." MAY I CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT "ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR" IS OWNED BY MYSELF AND APPLIED TO MY OWN "BELIEVE IT OR NOT" PROGRAM, SPONSORED BY ROYAL CROWN COLA, FRIDAYS OVER 89 CBS STATIONS FROM...
Sirs: I read with unusual interest your account of a CBS program, Court of Missing Heirs. True to the tradition of this program for turning up lost heirs, records, etc., I now find myself turned up, not an heir, lost or otherwise, but a creditor, which will be quite a surprise to Mr. Shebel. If Mr. Alfred E. Shebel, part owner of the Court of Missing Heirs, is the same man (and I believe he is) who had offices at 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, he will recall that he owes me $10. About five years...