Word: algren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. "Its listeners," Minow goes on, "are loyal to the point of being fanatics." In recent months, licenses have been awarded to two new FM stations in the Chicago area-one in De Kalb, and the other in Skokie. Both were on frequencies so close to WFMT that they blocked...
...Capucine, the heroine has looked dead all along. By contrast, the other members of the cast (notably Anne Baxter and Jane Fonda) positively seethe with vitality. The script, which owes almost nothing but its title and its setting to the novel by Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren, was written by five writers in succession, and it reads like a round-robin, fold-over-and-add-a-line letter: "You certainly are an unusual girl to find in this sort of place . . . Darling, I love enough for two . . . My father used to say that love comes on silent...