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...starts planning to reindustrialize the Western Zones. The French feel the same way. At the bottom of it, you've got to realize that Germans were here for six years, that people in the street, the guy who runs the hotdog stand on the corner and all of Norman Corwin's little people are not so little. I don't know how many Czechs were killed, out of combat, by the Germans--about a million. Absolutely every family was affected...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...
...Time Is Now (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). A review, produced and directed by Norman Corwin, of the U.N. since last year...
...movie leans over backward to be fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Such likable veterans as Jack Benny, Fibber & Molly, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Fred Allen are respectfully saluted. The news commentators are cursorily lumped on the credit side and so is the fact that radio lavishes millions each...
When such competent radio writers as Norman Corwin and Arch Oboler have been allowed to write without sponsors' restrictions, they have sometimes turned out radio plays that were worth hearing. This week another trained radio scripter was given his head. Blind, 42-year-old Hector Chevigny used it better, in some respects, than his better-known predecessors. His formula: "I'm just trying to tell a good story...