Word: curleyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start in radio eight years ago by broadcasting an interview with the ashcan-rolling champion of Springfield, Mass. He fashioned 1939's most dramatic anti-fascist program, They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease. He aired the by now classical radio drama about Curley the Caterpillar (TIME, April...
Among the Wylie standouts of the past season: My Client Curley, Norman Corwin's adaptation of Lucille Fletcher's tale of a fabulous dancing caterpillar. Best comedy: Jack Benny. Best western: The Lone Ranger. Best daytime serial: Pepper Young's Family. Best talk: The President's Address to the Science Congress. Best music continuities: The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the John Kirby Show. Best newscasters: Major George Fielding Eliot, Elmer Davis, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer, Wythe Williams and Raymond Gram Swing. Best spot reporting: James Bowen's description...
Technocrats since the campaign began, these Zanics offer their usual mad stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere...
Army knotted the count yesterday in the fourth period when Curley looped an easy scoring pass to Polk...
Listeners to CBS's Columbia Workshop program heard all this about Curley last month in a bit of fast-moving whimsey, full of good sound effects, called My Client Curley. Variety actually headlined: 'CURLEY THE CATERPILLAR' CLICKO. Norman Corwin, crack Workshop author-director, had adapted the play from a short story by a onetime CBS publicity writer, Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley...