Word: witness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DRAMA: Mutual's Arch Oboler, for "pioneer . . . efforts ... to create a dramatic form especially for broadcasting"; NBC's Edgar Bergen, for his "original wit...
Stylistically her book is as flat and wit less as a harmonica rendition of the Liebestod, but it does furnish a few peeks -between boudoir blackouts - at some of the men who make art a mystery...
Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), erect and dignified, saved from pomposity by an Irish wit, Glennon was long a familiar figure on his daily strolls about St. Louis's West End. "Those who do not know him are never in danger of mistaking his rank," said a friend; "and those who do know him are never reminded of it." In press and pulpit, he was an outspoken opponent of coeducation, woman suffrage, British rule in Ireland, divorce ("the modern attitude makes a joke of the sacrament of matrimony"), sexy and brutal movies. He once denied a murdered gangster...
...this, as for most of Kaye's success, Sylvia Fine shares the credit. Few collaborators work so well together. Danny's sparkle and titanic energy inspire-and force-Sylvia to work; Sylvia's dry, coruscating wit keeps Danny from falling into the banalities and cliches of overworked comedians...
Flip Rhetoric? CBS proudly claims Corwin as its own uncommon man, repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...