Word: programming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Secretary of State Hull faded-ironically enough, in the moment of his biggest victory (see p. 18). Not one of the Western Democratic Senators who voted against the reciprocal trade agreements was picayune, stubborn, or merely stupid. They reflected the Western electorate's firm belief that the program hurts cattlemen, farmers, miners. No Democratic boss in the West believed last week that the party could win with Mr. Hull, news almost certainly received gratefully by unambitious Mr. Hull, 68. No one in the U. S. saw anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except perhaps his age (oldest President: William Henry...
Listeners to CBS's Columbia Workshop program heard all this about Curley last month in a bit of fast-moving whimsey, full of good sound effects, called My Client Curley. Variety actually headlined: 'CURLEY THE CATERPILLAR' CLICKO. Norman Corwin, crack Workshop author-director, had adapted the play from a short story by a onetime CBS publicity writer, Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley...
...child listeners possessed and used this. They recognized Orson Welles's voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism...
Following their talks will come an hour of classical recordings and a half hour of popular music. The program will include a quarter of an hour of late news...
Denying that a program of vocational education means "teaching the use of business machines, or typewriting," the group issued a statement that "no college program can conceivably be called liberal which omits reference to that part of a man's life which will occupy two thirds of his time...