THE WORLD HEARS A COUGH
A coughing fit interrupted the reading of the 8.8.C.’s General Overseas news service at 1 a.m. (New Zealand time) to-day. Robert Harris, the news reader, had read the headlines. There was a pause. He could be faintly heard coughing before the woman announcer cut in to explain that it was "impossible to go on with the news.” A record was played for two minutes. Robert Harris was announced again. This time he could not even begin reading. Again the woman announcer came to his rescue. This time she re-read the headlines of the news, but the reader still could not continue. Not until the record had been played through could Harris try again, now five minutes late. For the remaining five minutes of his time he read, without fault, a substantially '■bbreviated bulletin.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 2
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138THE WORLD HEARS A COUGH Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 2
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