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Delivering the first of three Page-Barbour Lectures on "Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schols in a Modern Democracy," Conant noted that the bulging birth rate between 1940 and 1950 has produced "about 50 percent more children under six years of age than there are between...
Writer Carlton E. (for Errol) Morse, 49, sat in a Hollywood studio one day last week, blinking back a sentimental rush of tears. He was listening to Actor J. Anthony Smythe, the Father Barbour of One Man's Family (weekdays 7:45 p.m., NBC), thank the "great American listening audience for its wonderful and sincere loyalty" to the program over the past 19 years...
...surprising that Writer-Producer Morse was moved by the tribute. He had composed it himself in honor of the family he had first introduced to the U.S. in 1932. Then there were only Father and Mother Barbour and their five children. Today the clan totals 20, including twelve grandchildren, and six of the original cast have grown grey in the service of one of radio's oldest, best-known families...
Love, Marriage, Divorce. Unlike most of their 20 million listeners, the Barbours have always had plenty of money (Father is a retired broker worth "approximately $300,000"), and Morse strongly believes that the strength of the U.S. lies in "the Barbour type of family." But the Family's greatest appeal lies in the sobs, heartaches and all-around pluckiness of the Barbours in their encounters with love, marriage, divorce and sickness...
...show "for the eye instead of the ear," and began to think in terms of visible characters. The result was so successful that Morse now considers the TV Family (which has a different cast, headed by Bert Lytell, and a different storyline) much more top-drawer than the radio Barbours. Says Morse: "Father Barbour has become much more human than the stuffed-shirt character I created for radio; Mother Barbour is a more brilliant, society-type woman." Judging by their success to date, there seemed no reason to doubt that the TV Barbours would go right on spinning out their...