Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...This case is really one for history," said the Portland Oregonian. "But not for the radio program, This Is Your...
...idea came to Ingwer Hansen one day last spring when he was listening to an American Legion radio program in which Communists seized the Government. Hansen, who carries the town's mail, is also the local Legion commander and secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. He got his fellow Legionnaires interested. In store windows, posters proclaimed the overthrow of the "capitalistic government" and the establishment of the United Soviet Republics of America. James F. Green, chairman of the Legion's National Americanism Commission, came up from Omaha to help...
...anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife. "We'll sick the dog on them." Others just locked their doors and stayed inside. Raiders at the road blocks were warned...
...scheme to show that the artistic and economic recovery of Marshall Plan Europe were humming along at the same tempo. Beginning next week, the U.S. will be able to judge the proof with its own ears. The first of 16 hour-long "Orchestras of the World" programs will go out over some 250 U.S. radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic. The others will carry U.S. listeners on a 1,400-mile journey across less familiar territory-from...
...over, Choreographer Lifar himself seemed to have disappeared in a cloud of dust. Reporters raced to the committee box. Why had there been no music for Lifar's ballet? Said one grim spokesman: there was "no ballet." But, insisted the reporters, it was billed in the program as a ballet; what were Lifar and all those helicopters doing out there? Said the spokesman, his face set: "No ballet. Just helicopters...