Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of allocating radio time to the numerous Government agencies that wanted it. CBS elected to tell, each week, the story of whatever U.S. Government activity was uppermost in the news. Assigned to the job were CBS's clearheaded Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, and a producerdirector, Brewster Morgan, who had directed a Shakespearean theater in England, worked in Hollywood, got radio down cold in the Columbia Workshop...
...pools of U.S. radio talent are in Manhattan and Hollywood. To put on his show in Washington, Producer Morgan had to find and train his own actors. On the reasonable theory that types for a show about the Government could be found in the Government itself, Morgan relied heavily on well-cast amateurs. Of the 200 actors and actresses who are now on call for Report to the Nation, two-thirds are daytime Government employes. Among them Producer Morgan, in search of a regional accent, can be fairly sure to find the real McCoy...
...road that helped develop the great Alabama steel areas (and vice versa); it was the road whose passengers used to be met by grinning waiters with free Sazerac cocktails; it was the road which John W. (Bet-you-a-Million) Gates kidnapped from J. P. Morgan's corral in a spectacular Stock Exchange raid in 1902. Gates made $10,000,000 by selling the stock to J. P. Morgan, who then resold it to Atlantic Coast Line. A.C.L. still owns 51% of L. & N. common...
...successor to Fran Lee will be one of three backs, Don McNicol, Gordy Lyle and Dave Goldthwait or one of five linesmen, Don Forte, Jack Morgan, Bull Barnes, Russ Stannard and Johnny Page...
Maroon, meanwhile, has Gary-Coopered his way in & out of Clio's boudoir, various gambling halls, and the offices of J. P. Morgan in New York. He runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...