Ear To The Ether - Listening Post ... and here is a view of the CBS listening post from the outside, looking through the big glass window. Frances Barnard and Benedict Magnes have earphones clamped to their heads as they listen to a foreign broadcast. It may be from Berlin, Rome, Tokyo or Chungking. Magnes is an expert in Arabic. Also translates German, French, Italian. Miss Barnard listens only to English broadcasts. July 5, 1942. (Photo by Herbert Scharfman, International News Photos).