Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed Secretary of the Army: WILBER MARION BRUCKER, 61, Detroit lawyer and politician...
Fifty years ago today on the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilber Wright pioneered in achieving flight with heavier-than-air craft. The associated industries that have grown up around the airplane during its half-century of existence new provide work for over half a million people. In the midst of the growth of these industries, a striking change has taken place in the attitude of the public toward aviation. Once considered a dream of impractical man, aviation today has an honored place among vocations and professions...
...Wilber quit his Toronto job ten months ago. He lives and works in an off-Broad way hotel, equipped with a rented TV set and a rented typewriter. His formula is simplicity itself: "I think of the pictures I need to tell a story and then arrange them in the sequence I think best-from there on it's just like working on the copy desk and writing captions for a picture." His plots are equally simple: "I get two characters going and I put them in a mess, and then they write the show themselves...
Klondike Vein. A Wilber TV play is often spiced with Spillane-type violence: a flogging or a torture scene or a near-lynching. His heroines are outright symbols of purity, his villains 'are double-dyed, his heroes are properly heroic. A TV producer describes the typical Wilber melodrama as "a handling of clichés that somehow keeps the viewer from realizing he's watching clichés." Wilber's favorite author is Jack London but, he admits, "I've never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...