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Everything in radio, Fred Allen once said, is as fleeting as a butterfly's cough. One exception he might have made is the work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed...
Triumph has all of the virtues and some of the faults of Corwin's craftsmanship. It uses contrast effectively (a taut-voiced announcer says, The voice you hear will be that of the Conqueror: the man of the hour, the man of the year, of the past ten years and the next twenty-and a hesitant, uncertain G.I. voice speaks up). Corwin's text likewise relies on sharply contrasted images...
...busy with a conference-eve 'round-the-world documentary, Memo to the Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...Donaldson as Stinky, Cary Grant as Flynn, and Jimmy Gleason as the producer's right hand man, are all excellent. And it's different; it's Corwin...