Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean of Special Students, Adams was in charge of the University's program for the students taking courses at Harvard but not candidates for any degrees. The special University Extension courses are given in the afternoons and evenings under a grant of the Lowell Institute...
President Truman's Point Four program had already suggested that a change was at hand. More recently, Washington's warm welcome to Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra pointed up U.S. determination to stand beside its democratic friends. Last week fresh evidence that the U.S. was pulling up its hemispheric socks came with the nomination of an Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. He was balding, 37-year-old Edward G. Miller Jr., Yaleman ('33), Wall Street lawyer and one of Dean Acheson's closest wartime lieutenants at the State Department...
...royal box, where Queen Elizabeth was just making her own arrival. But an hour later, when Ormandy had brought Brahms's Symphony No. i to a resounding end, the applause came heavy and this time it was all for Ormandy and the orchestra. And when he finished the program with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, the white ties in the three-guinea stalls shouted bravos, while the galleries stomped and whistled. Ormandy beamed & bowed ten times, finally ended shouts of "Encore" by launching into God Save the King.* Then the musicians dashed off to a party...
...crisp, compelling voice said: "This is Bill Stern wishing you all a good, good night . . ." With that sign-off last week, dark, dapper Bill Stern ended the sooth program on his .Sport newsreel (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC) and rounded out ten years for the same sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. Since few sports-comment programs ever get on a national network, and even fewer last, Stern's decade on the air is unequaled in radio's short history...
...illegal commercial broadcasts (Belgium's official radio network is state-owned and noncommercial) are nourishing because of a genial conspiracy between the broadcasters and listeners. Handwritten program listings are passed around in country inns, whipped out of sight whenever a stranger appears. For a five-franc (11?) charge, the innkeeper will forward a record request accompanied by a romantic or spiteful message...