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Radio, as Norman Corwin has observed, "long ago conspired in its own enslavement by raising to Godship Hooper . . . and basing its main thought and operations upon a schedule of percentages." And Hooper has been in a pretty good position to name his own price since his only major rival, the industry-financed Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, Inc., folded last September...
Behind Fledgling Fletcher are seven years of variegated experience, and-more significantly-two of radio's most influential ex-Boy Wonders: Orson Welles and Norman Corwin. At 18, Markle left school and began acting, directing, and writing stories he'd much rather forget today (the kind of "terribly sophisticated stuff you do when you're 20, when you know everything that goes on in hotel bedrooms"). At 19, he settled on radio, wrote 250 dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., ! became a smash hit with Dominion listeners...
...helping hands of Corwin and Welles were not proffered without a little arm-twisting from Markle. He peppered Corwin with mail, and when Corwin was in Toronto, played recorded shows for him. Corwin, enthusiastic and polite, got CBS interested in Markle, who was given a chance to flex his muscles on three Columbia Workshop dramas last summer. Then, with Corwin's backing, he joined the network...
Married. Norman Corwin, 36, prize-winning radio scripter; and Actress Katherine Locke, thirtyish; she for the second time, he for the first; in Elkton...
...Norman Corwin...