Word: serially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forward: Small station KCKN in Kansas City, Kans. last week was broadcasting a serial reading of Clarence Streit's famous book Union Now. A levelheaded zealot, Streit argues for immediate federal union of the U.S., England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming the nucleus of a World Government. Significant fact: KCKN, in the heart of the long isolationist Middle West, is owned and operated by Senator Arthur Capper, an anemometrist who has never had to wet his thumb to know how the political wind blows...
...testy oldster (well played by Movie Oldster C. Aubrey Smith) who idolizes the memory of his father, a great Civil War general; and of the oldster's wife who, sick to death of the family hero, makes irreverent but remunerative copy of him in a radio serial. But this comedy idea is too slight. It takes livelier things, like the brash, terrible-mannered Hollywood magnate (played for all he's worth by Joseph Buloff) who finally barges in, to pile up the laughs...
...serial in the accepted sense, Against the Storm has a score or so characters, European and American, whose lives touch in haphazard couples or clusters as human lives do. Its focus is Harper University at Hawthorne and an English professor with his wife, his daughters and their friends...
...defense weakened just long enough to permit Bill Murphy to heave the winning points on a touchdown pass to right end "Cush" Eels. On the first play of the game, Eels dislocated a finger on his right hand but remained silent and continued the game. When he snagged the serial from Murphy, he was forced to use his arms in bringing the ball down, but he held on to it and chalked up another victory for Lowell...
...first appeared in Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory? This time, in the guise of burly, hard-voiced Edmund Lowe and hulking, grim-visaged Victor McLaglen (who enacted the cinema roles), they appear not in the old story, but in a new radio serial, a brisk, jaunty half-hour show on NBC's network (Sunday 7:30 p.m. E.S.T...