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...broadcast was carried by 96 CBS affiliated stations (some 25 in the South and Southwest). None of them was obliged to (the script was read to them over a closed wire before the broadcast). The program's author-producer-director, William N. Robson (TIME, March 8), thinks that the ether has been broken and that CBS can now go ahead to air other topical problems (inflation, black markets, etc.). To lend the race program authority, CBS had gotten Wendell Willkie to close it. The fact that his warm plea for tolerance was definitely an anticlimax was perhaps the best...
Many Marriages. In real life Father Dodd has performed some real movie marriages: Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller, William S. Hart and Winifred Westover, William Lasky and Margaret Lowe. He has also officiated at movie stars' funerals: Douglas Fairbanks, Marie Dressier, May Robson, John Gilbert, Owen Moore...
...Lois A. ROBSON...
Drama: CBS's The Man Behind the Gun (TIME, March 8) and its team of Writer Ranald R. MacDougall and Producer-Director William N. Robson, for intensifying "our appreciation of what the men in action are up against...
...Robson should be an effective force against the further spread of radio ham. His Man Behind the Gun has received many unsolicited tributes, but none so telling as the complaint of some returned U.S. marines who heard his three dramatizations of their experiences on Guadalcanal. The marines asked him please not to put them through it again...