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...Victor Ratner, for one, is sick & tired of hearing critics pick on radio. "Radio's made in the image of the American people," says he. "To lambaste it is-why, it's un-American...
Veteran Radioman Ratner, 43, is in a good spot to hit back at radio's detractors: he is the new CBS vice president in charge of promotion and advertising. He is a veteran scrapper (as a University of Michigan freshman, he once outwrestled Ed "Don" George, who became a topflight U.S. heavyweight...
...critics hit at radio," says Ratner, "because they claim to be shocked at the programs; actually they're shocked at what the U.S. people are. Radio fits the contours of the people. The masses like comic books, Betty Grable in the movies, broad comedy and simple drama on the air. It's vulgar, fast, simple, fundamental -and that's what...
Since radio, in Ratner's opinion, represents "the judgment of the majority of adult Americans," it must be right. The intellectuals who object to soap opera had better go read a book and leave radio to the masses...
...cavalry had Topeka under control. Said Governor Ratner, before he went back to his interrupted breakfast: "We should thank our heavenly father that we have only make-believe blitzkriegs in America today. And we should be eternally grateful to the men who are taking this training so that none will ever reach our shores...