NAEB Newsletter (December 1, 1942)

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NALB NEil.S LETTER Page 3 December i, 1942 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPEECH; "LFDECINE IN THE , K - A SERIES OF TALKS RV MEMBERS OF THE ^EPICAL SCHOOL FACULTY t "TELL ME , PROFESSOR," f3Y Professor Abbot; "It happened Before,** oramatization; "Patriotic Music* 11 directeo by Dr„ Joseph £. Maddy, chairman of the music COMMITTEE OF THE MICHIGAN COUNCIL ON NATIONAL DEFENSE, FRESPg- OF PR£3S OK JlSUt. * SERIES OF SI* HALF-HOUR RADIO PROGRAMS DEALING V' I TH THE BATTLE FOR Freedom of the Press in America have been recently written* produced AND RECCaDFO AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF ?CrA, l > 0 ' f 'A ClTV. WRITTEN IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR HIS MASTER*S DEGREE IN JOURNALISM BY Donald E. Brow, the scripts are authentic historically, being based ON Brown’s RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN THE U.S. Incidents in the lives of six of the nation*s outstanding editors PROVIDE THE DRAMATIC MATERIAL ON WHICH THE SCRIPTS AFE BASED* IN¬ CLUDED IN THE SERIES WHICH IS BEING BROADCAST CURRENTLY OVER THE University's radio station WSUI each Tuesday afternoon and Wednes¬ day EVENING, ate: (l) *'ThE MOVING ApoEAL," DRAMATIZING THE PART PLAYED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DILL OF THE MEMPHIS APPEAL IN FURTHERING an American free press; (2) "The Honef>t Crook," dealing with Lincoln Steffens and his battle with Tammany as editor of the New York Commercial Advertiser; (?) "A Chapter in Freedom of the Press," fs BASF 0 ON THE FAMOUS TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZeNGERJ \ 4 J "THE L*cc StORY of t osepn p ulitzer" treats with his early days on the St„ Louis Post-Dispatch; (5) "The Abolitionist Editor," concerns the courage of the Reverend Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who, in defending his Observer presses at Alton, Illinois, gave his life for the cause of a free press; and (6) "The Strange Case of Fremont Older," the CRUSADING EDITOR OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BULLETIN. The SCRIPTS WERE WRITTEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PROFESSOR CHARLES L. Sanders of the School Journalism at the University. They are being cast and put into production by Professor H, Clay Harshbarger of the Department of Speech* while the recording is supervised by P no^ESSCn Carl Menzer of the College of Engineering, director of Station YSUI — Editor and Publisher (W e have hopes of adding scripts to NAi£i3 Script Exchange.) A£R SPONSORS PUBLICS I ON OF OBFLFR PLAYS The Association for Education by Radio has sponsored the publication of Arch Obeler's PLAYS FOR AMERICANS, a collection of the series he wrote and produced on Sunday afternoons on the NBC network last season- T| TLE s include "Johnny Quinn, U.S.N,", "Letter at Midnight", and "Chicago, Germany"-