Sunday, September 29, 1940
DAILY NEBRASKAN
CBS commentators condition
themselves to bombs attacks
Although nazi bombs have
blasted the two top floors of his
limestone and brick office build
ing into the middle of nearby
Langham Place, Edward R. Mur-
row, director of Columbia Broad
casting System's European staff,
has managed to get through to
American listeners from London
with every scheduled broadcast
exactly as planned.
Murrow, who only a few years
ago was arranging European inter-university
debates and inter
national exchange scholarships as
a staff member of the Institute of
International Education, is cheer
ful about having to dive for the
gutters during attacks. "It's o
pleasant to pick yourself up," he
says, "without the aid of a
searcher party."
Five dives in ten blocks.
On Sept. 18, on his way to his
office to prepare a broadcast for
3:45 a. m., London time, Murrow
had to fall flat five times in ten
blocks to duck bomb splinters. Be
ginning Monday, KFAB will carry
Mm row's reports at 5:45 p. m.
Most Londoners object to the
lack of sleep in the besieged city.
Murrow says that this bothers
him less than other people, be
cause American radio broadcast
ers are accustomed to doing with
out sleep. Chaperoning college
students through Europe also got
him out of the habit.
On the air one night, however,
Murrow told his listeners that he
was speaking softly because he did
not want to wake men and women
who were sleeping on the floor
of the underground studio of the
British Broadcasting company
Irom which he was talking.
Murrow has two assistants in
London, beside his wife, who re
fuses to return to America with
out him. Eric Sevareid, former
city editor of the Paris Herald,
and Larry Lesueur, who worked
his way thru NYU by trapping
muskrats in New York City's Van
Cortlandt park, alternate with
Murrow on Columbia's three daily
London broadcasts.
Upper stories are dangerous.
Their homes have escaped
bombing so far. Lesueur has
moved from his exposed top floor
apartment to a flat on the second
floor which he shares with the
doorman.
Down at Dover, Murrow has a
third assistant, Arthur Menken.
Menken has a sandbagged obser
vation post on one of the chalk
cliffs overlooking the channel. Be
tween the frequent German air
raids, without bothering to remove
his steel helmet, Menken steps
over to a nearby field where he
is raising a crop of potatoes. He
recently wired Murrow that the
crop is ready for harvesting, and
that he wiil return to London
when he has dug the potatoes.
Broadcasts will continue.
The CBS staff has made plans
for continuing its broadcasts in
case London has to be evacuated.
The broadcasters will remain in
London until technical facilities
are knocked out, and will then go
to the country where several al
ternative origination points are lo
cated. "Bombs may interrupt cables,
but can neither bend nor break
short waves," Murrow said in a
Daylight saving time, ob
served in many of the eastern
and central zones, ended at
2 a. m. today.
Twenty Southern California com
munities are served thru classes
offered by the University of Cali
fornia extension division.
Movie Clock
Kiva "Howards of Virginia,"
1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10.
Line oln "The Westerner,"
1:13, 3:22, 5:31, 7:40, 9:49.
Nebraska "Beyond Tomor
row," 1:00, 3:54, 6:48, 9:42.
"Stagecoach War," 2:40, 5:34,
8:28.
Stuart "City for Conquest,"
3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40.
Varsity "My Son, My Son,"
1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10.
cable to CBS' director of public
affairs, Paul White. .
Meanwhile the London staff
faces the sleep problem and the
language question. The latter was
raised by the need for accurate
descriptions of the bombings. Ar
gument over the precise adjective
for describing searchlights still
rages, but Murrow has made up
his mind about the verb for ex-
Dlodine' bombs. Bombs, he insists. &
grunt.
Kadio . . .
New7 program
features folk
songs of U.S.
AMERICANA
Remember the days of outlaws
and Wild West sheriffs?
Remember the hill-billy boys
who courted their girls with songs
about their true-loves?
Remember the heroic deeds of
pioneer days that have been im-
mrotalized in song?
All these bits of Americana are
brought to live in music on the
Columbia network's new. three-
times-weekly musical program.
"Back Where I Come From," to
be aired over CBS Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays, 9:30 to 9:45
p. m.
"Back Where I Come From"
was first heard as one of the ex
perimental programs in Columbia's
famed "Forecast" series last sum
mer in which new radio ideas were
given tryouts. As a result of that
broadcast, it has become a regular
network feature.
"Our main idea in the show,"
says its director, Nicholas Ray, "is
to present the lesser-known folk
songs, and to present them as
they were sung by the people who
originated them."
The program author is Alan
Lomax, well known to CBS listen
ers as an authority on American
ballads through his work lat sea
son on Columbia's "School of the
Air." Principal interpreters of
songs are Woody Guthrie, Burl
Ives and the Golden Gate quartet
four boys who sprang to fame
on Columbia's "Pursuit of Happi
ness" program and who have since
been heard regularly on John Kir-
by's "Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm"
and in their own programs.
Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives
are a pair of boys who know
whereof they sing when they sing
folk ballads. They've spent the
last few years "on the road," sing
ing for their meals or, if not hun
gry, just singing for fun. Boih
have a number of original songs
to their credit, and both think it's
nice' to settle down on "Back
Where I Come From" for a spell.
"That "is," savs Woody, "until
our feet begin to itch a bit."
NY A SYMPHONY
Aubrey Williams, administrator
of the NYA, will speak briefly
from Washington when a series of
Columbia network roadcasts by
National Youth administration or
chestras in principal cities is in
augurated today from 9:30 to
10 a. m.
Following his talk the NYA
symphony orchestra of Philadel
phia will be presented from its
home city in a concert under the
direction of Ixuis Vyner. Selec
tions include Mendelssohn's "Ruy
Bias'' overture, the waltz "Wiener
Blut" of Johaan Strauss, Caillct's
arrangement of "Pop! Goes the
Weasel" and the Dance of the
Buffoons from "The Snow Maid
en" by Uimsky-Korsakoff.
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