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Married. Norman Corwin, 36, prize-winning radio scripter; and Actress Katherine Locke, thirtyish; she for the second time, he for the first; in Elkton...
...Catholic Church best use radio as a tool in proselyting? For one, by offering good music to attract the listener and to create a mood receptive to the subsequent religious message. This is the conclusion drawn by Scripter William C. Smith from audience reaction to his two Catholic network shows, The Catholic Hour and The Hour of Faith. His conclusion and what lies behind it are set down in The Priest, a monthly published for the clergy by straitlaced, conversion-minded Bishop John Francis Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind. Some of Smith's points...
...show, designed to frame "an observation window on contemporary politics," did without love interest, filled the gap with action. Hero of the piece: Jeff Tyler, an ex-sergeant of 31-"young enough," explains a Senator scripter, "to be romantic, old enough to have judgment...
Norman Corwin, 35, radio's wonder-boy writer-producer, this week took a vicious bite at the hand that feeds and pets him. In a new book, While You Were Gone (Simon & Schuster; $3.50), Scripter Corwin charged radio with "dreadful mediocrity. . . . The average sponsor and agency ... borrow, imitate, plagiarize, and perpetuate formulas . . . and become fast slaves to ratings. Originality and experimentation are . . . firmly rejected. I believe . . . radio has a higher destiny than merely to sell soup and soap...
...funny episodes which make up Hargrove's war is strung together with just enough story to keep things moving-and just enough plausibility to keep them from getting out of hand. Hargrove's experiences (which are not actually Writer Marion Hargrove's but the inventions of Scripter Harry Kurnitz) have the flavor of a letter home to an aunt who is a good old sport...