Word: scripters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Best Years of Our Lives. The Oscar-winning picture of 1946, which also won Oscars for Producer Sam Goldwyn, Director William Wyler, Scripter Robert E. Sherwood, Actors Fredric March and Harold Russell (TIME...
...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...