Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kraft Music Hall program has the reputation of going to considerable lengths for a gag. Not long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...
...Games Department has another new audience participation program, taken from the Finnish. Originated by Helsinski University's Psychology Institute and expansively called What Sort Of Person Does This Voice Belong To? the program presents nine inexperienced broadcasters, has each read for one minute from the same text. Listeners are asked to determine each reader's sex, age, height, build, degree of seclusiveness, personality, characteristics, profession. In one case the Finns made it harder by having twins speak alternate sentences...
American listeners last week were promised a weekly half-hour of assorted parlor games in the Town Hall Big Game Hunt, summer substitute for Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight. Old Vaudevillian Norman Frescott, who takes over from Allen July 6, claims that his program will be the most diverse and complicated ever. "The audience asks the announcer a question," facetiously says he, "the announcer puts a question to a guest star, who puts one to the band leader, who puts one to the soprano. And after the program, the sponsor puts...
...crops, commodity exchanges all over the U. S. were jittery. The figures that correspondents relayed to their home offices were not quite so bad as most had anticipated-but bad enough to spur Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace's efforts to perfect a new wheat-loan program. And such were the prospects for the three major crops (others appeared to be in fairly normal shape) that Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt prepared to dump the cornucopia of Government largess as never before...
From the all-time high of 106 in December 1936, the Dow-Jones bond average fell to a low of 83 in March. Then the Government's desterilization program and the fall in commercial loans, gave bonds a rally quite unlike anything stocks have enjoyed, and the average jumped to 88, has since steadied at 85. Despite this pleasant development, the annual frolic at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club which Wall Street's bond traders enjoyed last week, cost them no sacrifice; for bond buying, like stock buying, is in the doldrums...