Word: programed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three team leaders also dominate the individual records, best time and individual scoring. They hold, among them, seven of the best marks in the nine events on the league program. The individual scoring lead currently is deadlocked between Erie Cutler, Harvard captain, and Ned Parke, of Princeton. Each of these men, both free stylers, has scored 20 points on four first places in two meets. Third place is held by Harvard's Henry (Jim) Curwen, who has 18, while two Navy men, Jim Conger and Gordon Wiley, both sophomores, fellow with 17 and 16, respectively...
Reactionary program planners have been subjected to some rather bitter attacks from critics all over this country during the last few years. Jose Rodriguez, in Script, addressed a statement to Leopold Stokowski of which a part is quoted here:" . . . If you wish, you can please the mob, and also the students and the initiated. You can give a hearing to the masters of tomorrow as well as those of yesterday; among the first, particularly those who speak of the aspirations of our time and our own country; among the second, those who have been undeservedly neglected in spite of their...
...Adams Sentinel) turned the old press over to the Franklin Institute for a permanent exhibit. It was probably the oldest U. S.-made printing press in existence. After gathering dust for some 60 years, it still worked well enough to run off souvenir copies of the Institute's program, for Printer M. J. Smith (see cut), who had operated the same press when...
...Charlie McCarthy. At the 1939 finish, Charlie (Chase and Sanborn Hour) had an estimated 27,000,000 Sunday-night listeners: Jell-O's Jack Benny, an hour earlier on the same NBC-Red network, 24,000,000. Beginning Jan. 7, Standard Brands pared the Chase and Sanborn program to a half-hour, saving some $7,500 in airtime charges, plus salaries of Hollywood fixtures like Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche...
Last week the first Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) reports for 1940 showed a new king of radio. Jack Benny, a three-time front runner before Charlie came along, was in first place again. In his first month as a half-hour program, Charlie had lost over 1,000,000 listeners. In the same month Jack Benny's chuckly half-hour had picked up an estimated 3.000,000 listeners...