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A goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program...
Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit) is a 27-year-old professional screwball, who once attracted attention by offering a prize to the listener who could think up a new name for him. Now NBC is offering a $500 war bond for the best title for The Show Without a Name...
The voice was unprofessional, big, with a flat, tolling quality that frequently gave professionals the creeps. No listener remembered its like-least of all originating from censor-shrouded Cairo, that graveyard for radio correspondents.
A weather report broke in at this point. An exasperated listener, Lookout Staton Brooks at Mount Wrightson, got the weatherman to hush so the network could hear "a couple of American planes in the Pacific." They heard:
Commercials of the stomach-turning variety got a good going-over last week from a listener with a sensitive stomach and a big audience. In Reader's Digest, Robert Littell protested against broadcast ads which made "some stranger's gizzards come bounding right into the room." He called...