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...month unlimbered against enemy propaganda the kind of weapon which is mighty and shall prevail. Entitled Our Secret Weapon (Sunday, 7 p.m., E.W.T.), the program has nothing secret or even subtle about it. A CBS announcer reads a blatant statement from a recent Axis broadcast, then Rex ("Lie Detective") Stout uses it as a clay pigeon to shatter with the truth. A typical exchange...
...STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...
...first four shooting matches left the air full of fragmented lies and cheers from the audience. The New York Times's sensitive Radiocritic John Hutchens called it the best of the summer shows. More than 2,000 listeners wrote in about it. Sample: "Rex Stout, you're the nuts...
...supplying Stout with propaganda pigeons falls to Jack Gerber, director of the CBS short-wave listening station. Said Gerber last week: "We wondered if they'd tell enough lies in a week to keep the program interesting. They sure do. We hear twice as many...
...stout-hearted crew retaliated with a long blast from their whistle, attracting a nearly police car, which proceeded to apprehend the responsible Cambridge urchins, thus putting an abrupt end to the reign of terror...