Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radiomen the best thing that happened last week was a half-hour talk to them on a unique closed telephone network (i.e., not on the air) by OFF's Director Archibald MacLeish. Coherent and down-to-earth, Mr. MacLeish dispelled apprehensions, cleared up the "What can I do?" question and told the broadcasters what kind of guidance they could expect from his office henceforth. Among matters soon to be set right by OFF and a Broadcasters' Victory Council in Washington: excessive bunching and repetition of appeals, pep talks, the national anthem...
...newly reorganized Harvard Radio Workshop will begin a competition this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in its new studios at Shepard 10. Founded in 1938 by OFF chief Archibald MacLeish, when he was teaching at Harvard, the workshop is now headed by Harold P. Fleming...
...spot and the spot was furnace-hot. The U.S. wanted a great deal of information, and all of it straight. Fortnight ago OFF Chief MacLeish had talked of "the strategy of terror" of the Axis Governments, had contrasted it with his own belief in a "strategy of truth." This was a heartening note. Citizens who could imagine what he was up against were inclined to reserve judgment; to hope that MacLeish's OFF would be able to give them not puzzling facts and figures but the enlightening truth itself...
With these words Radio cast aside its diversity for a half-hour last Saturday night to give Americans a dramatic meditation. It was prefaced with an introduction by President Roosevelt (read by Archibald MacLeish). The four major networks and many independent stations-some 700 stations in all-contributed the time. It was the first of 13 shows suggested by the Office of Facts and Figures, designed to instruct and confirm the American spirit, and entitled This...
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...