Word: walleck
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...agenda. It was not introduced by mild-mannered Writer-Director Norman Corwin, though Corwin, at what was supposed to be a routine discussion of radio drama, lit into the namby-pamby traditions of radio educators. Speaking before 600 highly placed radiomen in the gilt ballroom of Columbus' Deshler-Walleck Hotel Corwin declared that the convention was clogged with "platitudinous generalizations" and "hush-hush talk." Corwin asked, "Why have there not been names named? . . . Lindbergh, Coughlin, Patterson, McCormick, Hearst? ... I trust that no commercial sponsor will be so venal as to . . . prohibit any attack on the Fascist within . . . because...