![]() ![]() His book entitled "In the Footsteps of the Bard" came out in 2004. JLB is blamed for the uses to which his invention has been put.Īssociate Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter at the University of Pennsylvania.Ĭomment-In his spare time, Dr.McGhie is a connoisseur and writer of Scottish poetry. You goddam bloody genius, John Logie Baird!Ĭomment-The Ulster poet Robert Greacen wrote this poem in about 1990, reflecting the growing disillusionment with television programmesand commercials. May your soul shrink to the size of a midgeĪnd be harassed by TV jingles for ever and ever. You who have ended civilized conversationĪnd dished out licences to print banknotes, You who thieve the golden hours of bairns, In the later film version (1937) the hero was a journalist. John Logie Baird, because you struck the springsĬomment-this florid salute was written in television’s early years as a mass medium-the honeymoon stage! Hassall also wrote the story for the Ivor Novello stage musical, “Glamorous Night” (1935) in which the hero was a television inventor. He shall not go unsung who first set sailĪnd steered his cockleshell into the gale. He is with those who dared uncharted seas New worlds to conquer with the enquiring mind, who will not hail this storm-tossed pioneer?
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