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...Westward Movement," produced by the Radio Workshop...
...after a nervous breakdown at 40 which kept her off the air for almost two seasons. Their California home is a modest, eight-room Ensenada bungalow with green shutters, and rooms for the two young Jordans, Jim Jr. and Katherine. Out back, Jim Sr., now about 45. has a workshop and a vegetable patch, just as Fibber has at radio's 79 Wistful Vista. But off the air Jim Jordan is everything Fibber is not. He is handy with tools, his garden produces and, on the side, he runs two lucrative, if Fibber-style, ventures. One is a factory...
Listeners to CBS's Columbia Workshop program heard all this about Curley last month in a bit of fast-moving whimsey, full of good sound effects, called My Client Curley. Variety actually headlined: 'CURLEY THE CATERPILLAR' CLICKO. Norman Corwin, crack Workshop author-director, had adapted the play from a short story by a onetime CBS publicity writer, Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley...
...penetrating voice at his elbow interrupted, "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this--." Vag leaped to his feet and then sheepishly noticed the radio dial: WRUL. His watch said 7:30 and it was Tuesday, March 5. Of course, this was the Harvard Radio Workshop's program on the Westward Movement. Vag, chuckling, tuned in a little more carefully and settled down to hear the rest of the playlet...
...Harvard, he will offer to assist the University Committee on Broadcasting and the Radio Workshop, he says. "I am keen to meet the Workshop boys. I think it very significant that they are seeing radio as an effective educational technique, and that they are building their programs around a thing of such contemporary importance as American history...