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Writers who want to work for radio & TV got advice from an expert this week. In the Writer, voluble Norman Corwin, who has turned out a spate of purple-prose documentaries for radio, offered a two-word prescription for success: "Be mediocre...
...toughest critical yardsticks one can put alongside the modern short story is a two-word question: "so what?" A writer can blue-pencil his way to a clean precise style; if he can combine this with an ear for language and an eye for detail he can describe competently. But above all he must have something...
...hastily scrawled two-word statement to the press, Train then announced that his splinter faction would found a new esoteric humor review embodying the most stimulating features of "Pic," the "National Geographic," "II Progress," and he program notes of the Boston Symphony...
...campaigner he is dry, uninspiring. He does not make speeches, he lectures. His voice is as flat as a Midwest prairie. But he always says what he thinks, and means what he says (example: his two-word admonition to the U.S. people in 1947 to "Eat less"). His wife, Martha, is an ingratiating and razor-sharp platform performer...
...Little. For the Pennsy's woes, President Martin Withington Clement had a two-word explanation: "Government regulation." When rail workers were awarded an 18½? wage increase in mid-1946, it was made retroactive to Jan. 1. But ICC delayed giving the railroads a 17.6% rate increase until last December. Furthermore, said Clement, additional boosts are necessary...