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That was in 1940, and the story (by Lucille Fletcher Herrmann and Norman Corwin), breezing over CBS in half-an-hour flat, was one of the best and most popular radio plays of the year...
Chemotherapy. Doctors used to think that the tough-skinned tubercle bacillus would never succumb to a drug. But promin, diasone, promizole and the brand-new diaminodiphenylsulfone (all sulfa drugs) have showed good results against tuberculosis in guinea pigs, fair promise to human patients (TIME, Dec. 6). Drs. Horton Corwin Hinshaw and William H. Feldman, of the Mayo Clinic, told the Society that tuberculosis will probably succumb to a drug some day but that it is too early to evaluate any drug tried so far. For the sake of Europe, which is suffering a wartime tuberculosis increase, they urged that search...
With these impudent lines, neatly punctuated by music, upstart radio last week poked Hollywood in the nose. The sock was sharply delivered by U.S. radio's foremost writer-producer-innovator, Norman Corwin, who deserted radio eight months ago for the alabaster mines of Hollywood. Now back in the fold (CBS, 10 p.m. Tues., E.W.T.) with his salary doubled ($500 weekly), Corwin, who is responsible for much of U.S. radio's adult fare (Words Without Music, We Hold These Truths, My Client Curley, An American in England, The Odyssey of Runyon Jones), was off on a fresh 26-program...
...Corwin forsook his $2,000-a-week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
...Radiodramatist Norman Corwin once parodied the BBC style in his An American in England series from London: "This is London, here is the news, and this is John Snagg reading it: The world came to an end at two minutes after three this afternoon, during a debate in the House of Commons. A summary of the debate will be given at the end of this bulletin. Due to the unusual nature of the event and also to the fact that he was away at the time, Mr. Churchill could not be reached immediately to comment on the policy which...