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...Norman Corwin, reading a tribute to F.D.R., on TIME for Women (ABC, Fri., 4:30 p.m., E.S.T...
...words were the kind of stuff that Norman Corwin writes-sometimes graphic, frequently inflated. In the background, Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony played music that had more than a touch of Shostakovich. It was the première of The Airborne Symphony, Marc (The Cradle Will Rock) Blitzstein's 50-minute history of aviation for orchestra, chorus, speaker and soloists...
...magazine Billboard, 324 U.S. radio editors also liked, as tops in their class: Information Please, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore, H. V. Kaltenborn, Bob Hope, Sports Announcer Bill Stern, the Lux Radio Theater, Guy Lombardo (for light music) and the New York Philharmonic (symphonic music). The editors thought Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph the outstanding broadcast of 1945, voted Kenny ("Senator Claghorn") Delmar the newest radio star...
Flip Rhetoric? CBS proudly claims Corwin as its own uncommon man, repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...Corwin seems somewhat worried by such criticism. Says he: "I am the kind of a guy who is terribly wounded by a failure. When I lay an egg, I am worried lest it become a chain reaction." He wishes people would stop comparing his new works with his old. "It's unfair to compare me with myself," he says. "My mind is involved and peculiar like the Pentagon Building, with several levels and ramps...