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THE broadcasting of the Cup Semi-final and other football matches seems to have been a great success. Particularly, admired, according to the daily Press, were the narrator's staccato ejaculations like "It's in touch," "He's passed," "He's lost it," "Magnificent kick," Missed it," and so forth.
Could not the idea be developed? For instance, why not broadcast, for the benefit a dwellers in the fastnesses of the country, the paseage of a pedestrian across Trafalgar Square to get to Northumberland Avenue, under the conditions brought into being by the "roundabout" traffic system and its corollary the "Please Cross Here" signs.
"He's coming along Cockspur Street, hugging the wail," "Now he's reached the corner near the Admiralty Arch," "He's getting ready to cross the road," "A car is coming under the arch at forty miles an hour," "He's stepping off the pavement," "Cot " "No; ho's got back."
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"He's trying again," "A bus is coming up from Whitehall," "He's looking the wrong way," "He's in the road," "So is the bus," "He's seen it," "He's running like KM oke," "The bus is gaining," "He's doubled round a refuge."
"Another bus has got him," "No; he's off again," "It's chasing him up the side of the Square," " By George! can't he run?" "He's passed the National Gallery," "He's in among the traffic going South," "He wants to turn up the Strand," "He can't; the traffic is coming down."
"His hat has gone," "He's bolting west," "He's lost his umbrella," "A lorry has run over It," "Great Scott : that was a near thing!"
"He's heading for the Mall," "No; they've :turned Jim," "He's. ,back in Cockspur Street," "He's running up the Haymarket," "He's reached the Tube station,' "He's gone to ground," " He's taken a ticket to Charing Cross," "He's saved,"