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...Norman Corwin, 35, radio's wonder-boy writer-producer, this week took a vicious bite at the hand that feeds and pets him. In a new book, While You Were Gone (Simon & Schuster; $3.50), Scripter Corwin charged radio with "dreadful mediocrity. . . . The average sponsor and agency ... borrow, imitate, plagiarize, and perpetuate formulas . . . and become fast slaves to ratings. Originality and experimentation are . . . firmly rejected. I believe . . . radio has a higher destiny than merely to sell soup and soap...
...arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory. Sample burlesque (on radio's staccato-phrased, sentimental Scriptster Norman Corwin...
...cavernous ballroom of Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria, rich-voiced Paul Robeson recited 1,300 words of poetic prose written for the occasion by Radio Writer Norman Corwin and dedicated to an atomic world: "Set Your Clock at U-235." Then came General of the Army George C. Marshall, to say less flamboyantly that "there appear to be no short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen...
...American point of view was not presented at the rally by a State Department official, but by such left-wing spokesmen as Michael J. Quill, president of Manhattan's powerful Transport Workers Union, and Norman Corwin, radio writer. Also present to provide the glamor expected on such an occasion were Sono Osato, Luba Malina, Margo and the Broadway stars. (Frank "Harvey" Fay, a Roman Catholic, later went roaring to Actors' Equity against participation of stage folk in "a Red meeting" where the Roman Catholic Church was denounced...
...wish to correct an error in fact in your article about Norman Corwin [TIME, Aug. 27]. It states that in his recently concluded summer sustaining series "Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all bigtime evening shows." Actually the series built steadily to a 6.2 Hooper rating as of the period Aug. 1-7 (the last report currently available). Instead of a drop, this represents an audience increase of 106% in six weeks. The average Hooper rating for all evening programs on all networks in this latest period was 5.7; Corwin's was therefore 9% higher...