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...Norman Corwin, radio's 35-year-old wonder boy, enjoyed a week befitting his prestige. He won the first Wendell Willkie Award-a trip around the world, sponsored by Freedom House and the Common Council for American Unity. Skipping lightly over all other U.S. writers and artists, the two organizations thought Corwin's On a Note of Triumph and other writings the best "contributions [of 1945] to the concept of One World, in the field of mass communication...
...Corwin's second prize of the week came from an equally surprising source. The Metropolitan Opera Association picked his libretto for The Warrior (music by Bernard Rogers of Rochester, N.Y.) as the best submitted in a $1,500 competition for a new American opera...
...some ways, it was practically a normal week for Corwin. Since CBS discovered him tinkering in its Workshop in 1938, the handsome, prolific writer-director-producer has scooped up a large share of radio's praise and prizes...
...radio's own standards, Corwin has produced much of radio's best. His formula is well known: staccato phrases, sharp contrasts in voices, sound effects exaggerated like a Hearst headline. Corwin's stock in trade is "the common...
Shapley joined in the appeal with Har- old C. Urey, noted University of Chicago chemist and a leader in the Manhattan Project, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Congresswoman from California, and Norman Corwin, radio writer whose "Set Your Clock at U-235" has forcefully dramatized the menace of atomic destruction. His address, liberally gingered with the Shapley wit, drew a tremendous ovation...