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Corwin emphasized the necessity for great appeal to the audience. "A radio audience is the frankest in the world. Once you get people in a play house, they usually sit through the show, no matter how boring it is. But a radio listener will turn you off by flicking a switch if you're not good...
...long as these questions can be asked by good reporters free to write the truest and frankest answers they can find, freedom will have survived...
Columbia Pictures runs a gamut of its own, from the frankest sort of penny-thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize...
...damned the book in his daily column and roared into a microphone on his Bromo Quinine hour: "It is such a tissue of libel that the father of lies will have to move over on his throne when the spook of that author arrives. Moreover, it is the frankest kind of Communist propaganda." The General has a standing offer to allow any person attacked in his nightly talks to make a rebuttal on his radio time. Last week at the suggestion of the publisher, Vanguard Press, and with the approval of NBC and the program's sponsors, the General...
...group, this time to tell them about the special Budget message he was sending up the Hill next day. White House attaches expected the meeting to last not more than 45 minutes. It lasted two hours, and the Congressmen emerged glowing. It had been, they declared, the "best," the "frankest," the "most helpful," the "most important" conference they had ever had with the President, and they were bursting with the reason: this time they had talked back to Franklin Roosevelt, had spoken their minds with heat and firmness against the prospect of unpopular new taxes, for real economy...