ENGLISH BY WIRELES
PROFESSOR'S DISTINCTION
The honour of being the first person in the world for whom a broadcast medal was struck has fallen to the lot of a British subject. The Austrian sculptor, Herr Taglands, has just designed a fine portrait medal, which the Austrian national mint is striking of Professor T. W ; MacCullum, the popular teacher of English by broadcasting, and the man who. is jokingly accused of teaching all Austria to speak English with a Scottish accent. Professor MacCullum, who was a professor at the University before the war, lived in Vienna .unmolested throughout the war, says the London "Daily Telegraph." He has been teaching English by wireless for three years, and every day regularly receives a niailbag of fifty letters. He was the cause of at least one tragedy. A Viennese cook, after writing an anonymous love-letter to the unknown owner of the voice, placed the earphones to her head, turned on the gas, and died during a broadcast lesson. The medal bears a fino portrait of Professor MacCullum, and on the reverse c? it are an aerial and a microphone, witfe, the spire of Vienna Cathedral and tho signature of the professor encircled b;» his famous regular broadcast greeting to his hearers: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, in Vienna, Graz, and all the other beautiful places .of Austria." '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 10
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226ENGLISH BY WIRELES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 10
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