Word: station
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...after darkness fell, complications set in. A reporter checked on the Earl's conclusion that he had been married by the judge-and found it false. A radio station gleefully put the news on the air. Mrs. Rose Musette, owner of the tourist camp, heard the program, narrowed her eyes, and called the State Patrol. The cops diplomatically called the British Consulate...
...only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...
Call It Education. Pitchmen are somewhat cramped by TV station rules limiting the amount of time that can be given to commercials.* Adman Kaye solves this problem by buying time in 1½-hour chunks, scheduling a movie and then breaking it up for repeated four-minute pitches. To the battered televiewer, the breaks in the movie seem all but unendurable, the TV pitches all but interminable. But Kaye is careful to explain that demonstrating how something works comes under the heading of education, not selling. "It's only when we get into our turn (see glossary) that...
There were a few cases, King stated, but they stopped about 12 days ago when a man was picked up on Massachusetts Avenue on "suspicion." After questioning at the station, the offender, a middle age man, dressed like a college student and wearing an Eton cap, confessed to several "exposures." He was identified as a temporary Cambridge resident, unemployed at the time...
...movie should have ended as Marlowe walks out of a border station with fifty rifles pointing at him and chants of "Niva, Niva" coming over the radio in the background. But instead, Marlowe and the dancer are freed. The last scene takes place on a London-bound airplane, where Marlowe and the dancer suddenly become aware of their mutual affections. As the picture comes to a close, the dancer says she is going to be sick. She ought...