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BEST VERSE EXPERIMENT
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Radio’s acquisition of Norman Corwin has brought to . the industry one of the most surprising talents in the entire field of present-day broadcasting. In the space of fifteen months he has established himself as one of the truly creative directors in the business and has at the same time written and directed and adapted more first-class program material than anyone else in radio’s history, that is to say, more than anyone else in an equal period of time. Although he is at present only twenty-eight years of age, he had had a considerable record of accomplishment prior to his entering radio. At one time or another he had been sports editor of the Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder, radio editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, and director of the radio bureau of Twentieth Century Fox. In between times he had published two volumes of verse.
In the past year and a half he inaugurated a new series of programs (Words without Music) which has revolutionized the presentation of poetry on the air. He has given to poets a new flexibility of format so vigorous and so sensible that it is bound to attract many new writers to the business of broadcasting. His original verse drama, “They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease,’’ was considered by the Tenth Institute for Radio in Education to be the finest single broadcast of the year. His skillful adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet’s “John Brown’s Body’’ was another superior contribution. The piece of his which I have selected to reprint became the inspirational source for a whole series of half hour originals that appeared under the title, “So This Is Radio.” Two of his pieces have already appeared in book form, and negotiations to convert certain others into motion picture “shorts” are in progress.
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