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Novice radio scripters heard one of their best opportunities knock again last week. The Carrington Playhouse, a Mutual (Thurs., 8 p.m., E.D.S.T.) sustainer, which presents the script winning its weekly contest, finished its season-and was renewed for another...
...woman behind this non-commercial venture was almost a symbol of radio commercialism: Elaine Carrington, "Queen of the Soapers," who makes $200,000 a year by writing three soap operas...
...only after twelve years of marriage (to Lawyer George Carrington, who died last year) and three of depression that Elaine turned to radio. In 1932, NBC saw one of her scripts, asked her to do a series. The result: Pepper Young's Family, one of radio's most popular soapers. "It was all based," she says, "on the troubles I had raising Patricia (21) and Robert (17). It was my first radio baby, and you always have a special feeling about the first one, you know...
RANGER MOSBY-Virgil Carrington Jones-University of North Carolina Press...
Life to Come. Bishop Carrington and the rest of the world could only wait and hope. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had doubtless solved their immediate military problems. Their political problems were much harder. The Russian demand for a second front had always conflicted in the past with U.S.-British military policy (after the bitter post-Pearl Harbor defeats) of attacking only in overwhelming force, after a thorough pasting from the air. And in spite of Russia's blandly ignoring the fact, the U.S. and Britain were now busily engaged on five major fronts, all over the world. Conflicting...