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Over the air the Lambeth Walkers sounded as real as real life. So had their fellow Englishmen of the series' previous broadcasts: Lancashire millworkers, etc. On alternate weeks, CBS's Norman Corwin, who produces the U.S. end of the program, has tried to tell the British about the U.S. But he has told too much of the story himself. The result has been that the U.S. broadcasts have sounded like chapters out of Baedeker, while the English have sounded like themselves...
...Lowell G-42 KIR 8692 Cole, J. O. '46, Leverett D-21 TRO 8152 Connolly, S. '46, Winthrop F-43 KIR 3728 Conway, W. B. '46, Lowell E-13 TRO 9087 Cook, E. R. '46, Leverett A-14 TRO 5221 Corley, J. '46, Leverett J-24 ELI 2476 Corwin, G. '43, Leverett D-42 KIR 6116 Cowett, W. A. '45, Eliot O-32 KIR 5158 Crocker, J. '44, Eliot M-32 KIR 0079 Currier, R. H. '46, Winthrop F-44 KIR 3728 D Davidson, E. M. '45, Leverett G-41 KIR 6056 Davis, E. R. '46, Leverett...
...half hour Corwin's drama examined Cromer. There was a church, bomb-scarred but upright; a pier, wrecked in the middle to make it useless to invading Nazis; the beach where as many as 75,000 vacationists once toasted in the summer sun; Rust's nearly empty department store on High Street; a baker named Baker...
Radiodramatist Corwin had overheard such authentic bits as a discourse between a Canadian and an English officer...
...minute sum of such unimportant bits added up to a quiet, detailed, richly evocative piece of radio reporting. U.S. radio listeners could cheer Corwin's assumption that they were adult enough to understand common adult speech, could therefore be spared the painful explanations that often accompany radio's attempts to inform...