Word: serialization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa--More than 400 American and British planes, clamping an serial pincers on the Axis from French Africa and the Middle East, pounded 16 target areas stretching 700 miles from Greece to Sardinia yesterday in what was described officially as a "terrific hammering" of Southern Europe's crumbling invasion defenses...
...Abie's Irish Rose, made over into a serial, was on the radio. It had been on the air 56 times and was going strong. One of the top 20 shows on the U.S. air, it is broadcast coast to coast by 125 stations of the NBC network (Sat., 8-8:30 p.m. E.W.T.). It has listeners in some 5,000,000 homes...
Mommele, Poppele. Abie was a natural for radio when Anne Nichols persuaded Soapmaker Procter & Gamble to put it on the air last year. Playwright Nichols, who bats out the serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
...serial's formula is surefire. It is skill fully designed to give listeners the impression that they are eavesdropping on a typical small-town American family...
...person is jumpy, pink-cheeked, prematurely white-haired Radio Actor John Griggs, renowned in the trade for his huge professional calling cards which display old-style Police Gazette engravings and the information: "John Griggs, accurate, conscientious, and, if necessary, inspired." Griggs also plays Father Creighton in the NBC serial The Crazy Creightons (TIME...