Word: digest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, over 92 NBC-Blue stations, Cavalcade put on its most ambitious radio venture to date-a half-hour digest of Carl Sandburg's packed, four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Gangling Playwright Robert E. Sherwood wrote the script, Lincolnesque Raymond Massey, in Chicago playing Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, read the lead. The radio version was an episodic but surprisingly well-linked Lincoln cycle, from Springfield in a stovepipe hat (1861) back to Springfield in a cortege...
Large, powerfully built Cardinal Hlond, friend of Polish farmers and laborers, an educator with a liberal, modern tinge, had long worked to heal the age-old enmity of Germany and Poland. Excerpts from His Eminence's report to Pope Pius XII and the radio digest...
Publication date for the new tabloid, tentatively called P.M., has now been tentatively set for June 1. According to Ingersoll's plans, it will carry no advertising for at least two years but will run, as news, a digest of advertisements carried on other Manhattan papers. Managing editor of the paper will be burly, apoplectic George Harry Lyon, onetime city editor of the New York World-Telegram (1929-33), editor of the Buffalo Times until it folded last July. Editor of his own paper will be Ralph McAllister Ingersoll...
George Washington Ogden is an oldtime newspaperman (born 1871) who has written westerns (Whiskey Trail, Windy Range, etc.) and whose verse was once reprinted in the old Literary Digest. There Were No Heroes, which he subtitles "A Personal Record of a Man's Beginning," is unlike anything he ever tried before. It is too bad that he did not turn his hand to such serious writing decades...