Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...also the man whom one hard-headed client insured for $1,000,000 until he had safely completed the sale of the Sheepshead Bay race track, and whose sales in a single year (1922) topped $100,000,000. Just after World War I started, he put the lid on his own legend by trying to persuade the world that the holocaust could be stopped if Germany bought a piece of France at a price high enough to persuade every last penny-pinching Frenchman that peace had a profitable price...
Pegler columns (before his vacation in March) had deeply embarrassed the News. They had: 1) blasted at Marshall Field HI, whose Chicago Sun is an important client of the Daily News Building; 2) given left-handed praise to the News's and the Sun's mighty adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick...
...erudite Sherlockeries. From a dais, the Rev. Leslie Marshall of Paterson, NJ. intoned a "prayer," especially composed for the occasion: "Grant me, O spirit of Reason . . . plenty of three-pipe problems, that I may avoid the cowardice of 7% cocaine*. . . . Grant me ... the meditative breakfast at morning; the unexpected client in the nighttime. . . . Strengthen me not to astonish the good Watson merely for theatrical pleasure...
...deserted radio eight months ago for the alabaster mines of Hollywood. Now back in the fold (CBS, 10 p.m. Tues., E.W.T.) with his salary doubled ($500 weekly), Corwin, who is responsible for much of U.S. radio's adult fare (Words Without Music, We Hold These Truths, My Client Curley, An American in England, The Odyssey of Runyon Jones), was off on a fresh 26-program series...