Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...chattering glibly, reading endless commercials and playing records, the average disc jockey makes about $7,000 a year. U.S. radio employs thousands of them (e.g., Los Angeles has 30 disc jockeys). Most of them hope some day to make as much as New York's Martin Block ($200,000 a year), who claims-over the protests of Arthur Godfrey-to have been the first of his kind...
...only hope is "to make Bach available to more people." Explained Stokowski: "Bach lived all his life on the edge of starvation. I have the thought that somewhere in America is a great artist who is similarly unrecognized. I am saying that we have to remember our artists. That is the thought in the back of my mind...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
...White goods (stoves, refrigerators, washing machines) should be painted canary yellow to make them appear white; white cloth should be tinted blue or dipped in hot, black coffee...
...lone 7½-kilowatt transmitter is only a whisper compared to the worldwide 58-station network of Voice of America. But RFE, a branch of the National Committee for a Free Europe founded last year by a group of private U.S. citizens, expects to make up in pungency for its lack of volume. Explains Banker Frank Altschul, chairman of RFE: "Unhampered by diplomatic restrictions, we can slant our programs in a more definitely anti-Soviet way than the Voice...