Word: kaltenborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then suddenly, "LILY," the American computer imported to speed the vote counting, begins to behave strangely. The Communist vote goes up while the government vote stands still. Everyone laughs and has another glass of champagne. But LILY keeps moving the Communists up. A commentator who sounds like H. V. Kaltenborn in 1948 says, "Wait until the vote from Calabria and Sicily starts coming...
...Washington, D.C. Tall and gaunt, with a calm, reasoned tone to his speech, Swing was among the first of the true commentators, not merely reporting the news but attempting to find a meaning in each day's events. His competition in the 1940s was formidable-H. V. Kaltenborn, Edward R. Murrow, Gabriel Heatter-yet Swing commanded at least as large a following and salary (more than $150,000 in 1942), first on the Mutual Broadcasting Network and subsequently on the now defunct Blue Network...
Afterward Kaltenborn occasionally appeared on TV, but his heart was not in it. "Radio," he said with loyalty and conviction, "is better in covering news as it happens. There's so much concentration on the visual aspect of TV news rather than the sound that audiences get more entertainment than information. It is a Mardi gras atmosphere." He disdained Mardi gras...
Lecturing Labor. Kaltenborn was always in trouble for his bluntness and it finally cost him his job. The morning of the New York gubernatorial election in 1958, Kaltenborn proclaimed to an NBC audience that he found Nelson Rockefeller "an infinitely more attractive candidate" than Averell Harriman, adding, "and I'm for him!" When protests poured in, NBC decided that Kaltenborn had violated its canons of objectivity and quietly dropped...
Died. Hans von Kaltenborn, 86, the nation's most popular radio news commentator in the 1930s and '40s; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see PRESS...