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...Sherwin, onetime dramatic critic for the New York Globe, is as cheery in out look as Thomas sounds. Buranelli is convinced that the modern world is almost hopeless, would like to return to the Mid dle Ages. Sherwin, less optimistic, believes that mankind is doomed. While Sherwin's stint for Thomas is confined to writing two programs a week, Buranelli not only writes radio scripts, .but puts together Thomas' commentary for the Fox Movietone News and travelogue narratives as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Impresario of News | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week for his stint, sits quietly through rehearsals, patiently corrects his script as Barnett suggests. But he blossoms out each Monday night. Stars usually attend Radio Theatre premieres in slacks and sport clothes. De Mille, when not busy on a picture, wears a trim business suit which he dons in his dressing room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Show | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...young men and maids especially chosen by their bishops. They support themselves while proselyting, and generally serve a two-year period. Some missionaries are themselves converts. One such at Cumorah was blond, square-set Hollywood bit player Burnett Ferguson, who plans a return to acting when his evangelistic stint is done. Missionary Ferguson, whose last cinema appearance was in Dawn Patrol, had a fiery role last week as the prophet Abinadi, was burnt at the stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cumorah's Pageant | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...within the lean and hungry Hopkins frame, the burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men Around the Man | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...point of a gun. Promptly a city-wide search is begun during which Lorna reveals her presence in a flower shop by blinking out a bit of code with the florist's neon lights. Finally released, a little groggy from sniffing Lewisite gas,* Lorna winds up her stint by getting back the plans, telling her boy friend, the MBS announcer, that "faith and love will always endure." This week: Lorna Prevents Saboteurs from Blowing Up a Milwaukee Plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dark Doings | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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