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Writer of its angry opening lines and all the rest of it was Norman Corwin, who did the Bill of Rights anniversary program (TIME, Dec. 29). After working so hard on that show that he had a series of nosebleeds, Corwin was easing into a California holiday when OFF's Radio Boss Bill Lewis called him to Washington. Corwin brought to the job the best gifts to be found in radio-a spritely mixture of mockery and love for his medium. No radio writer has kidded it and used it so well at the same time. (Last month...
When he went to work with OFF, Corwin was in sympathetic company. OFF's chief, Archibald MacLeish, has written radio plays himself. OFF's dark and glittering Bill Lewis was the CBS vice president who made a famous remark about radio's audience: "Even if it's good, they'll listen." With the desire these men have for excellence and truth in "propaganda" programs, Corwin devoutly agrees. Said he last week, "I have a terrific sense of the dignity of a half-hour of God's time. I feel that anything which smutches that...
...Corwin's show was no smutch. Because serious radio is a delicate matter, its flaws (occasionally uncontrolled acting, a few poor pomposities of style) were disproportionately jarring. But the script sang with the defiant tunes of people and machines, and the narrator, Navy's Lieut. Robert Montgomery, handled well the address at the end to the people of the United Nations...
...Thirteen by Corwin; Holt...
...Plot to Overthrow Christmas (Thurs. 4 p.m. CBS), a play by Norman Corwin in its fourth annual presentation...