Radio showmanship (Jan-Dec 1942)

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Staff, and Other Advertisers, te Transcribed News Program an army through solid mountains; you can't march troops through hundreds of miles of desert without water, and you can't take heavy bombers over high mountain peaks through unbelievable blizzards. So the terrain and climate play an enormous role in what has already happened and what must happen in the future. "All I am doing is explaining these things. In so doing, I cannot help but explain the most important developments of the war." Mountains, rivers, lakes, desert, rain Sam Cuff, one of radio's busiest commentators, is shown here in the midst of his NBC television program. fall, seasons, all these and many other physical geographic characteristics of terrain have a direct effect on war movement. And the present war has now become a war not of diplomatic moves, but of the movement of men and machines. Behind almost every move by the forces of both sides, those in the know see the result of geographic influences. Sam Cuff looks behind the headlines to find the answers to scores of questions which up to this time have scarcely been commented upon. And in taking this slant on the news, Sam Cuff has frequently called the turn on occasions in the past. Flip back the pages of war history to the time of the campaign in Greece. Recall the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Forces? It was feared that the British were faced with another Dunkirk. A communique issued by the German High Command stated that two 16,000 ton troop transports had been dive-bombed in the harbor of Piraeus. As fast as he could get on the air, Cuff blasted that statement. From his own experience he knew that ships of such tonnage could not possibly enter the harbor. He stated that tlic evacuation would be accom