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This week U.S. radio script-writing took a short shuffle away from the tradition of heartthrob and supermanliness and toward the amiable vulgarity of Ring Lardner. The show is WOR-Mutual's Fight Camp, a good-natured yarn about a sturdy widow named Ma Corbett (Blanche Ring) who conditions pugs with one hand while keeping them away from her pretty daughter with the other...
Radio listeners last week heard a piece of music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...
When N.A.B.'s board met Mutual's challenge by endorsing everything President Neville Miller had said about FCC and Mutual's treaty with ASCAP, Mutual's three principal members-Manhattan's WOR, the Chicago Tribune's WGN and California's Don Lee network-resigned N.A.B. membership. Mutual withdrew from the N.A.B. board...
...Musicritic Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. It was performed by special dispensation, the work of the first ASCAP man to return to the networks with his own tunes. The composer and conductor was lanky, ruddy, silvery-haired Robert Russell Bennett, back on the air in a WOR-Mutual program called Russell Bennett's Notebook (7 p.m. E. S. T.). The program has been allowed to return, mainly because Mr.Bennett plays noncommercial music...
Granik's expenses are paid by Mutual's WOR, but he gets nothing in the way of salary. However, he picks up about $250 a month running a Forum, patterned after his air show, for United Feature Syndicate and he earns $10,000 a year as special counsel to the U. S. Housing Authority. Last week, he incorporated with Idea Man Maurice Dreicer (who introduced Where Are You From?), prepared to serve as consultant for any forum group in the country at fees ranging from...