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...sonorous and commanding as ever. It immediately recalled memories and stories of early TIME ventures into radio: the 1924 show, called Pop Question, conducted by the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; NewsCasts in 1928 and NewsActing in 1929, both started by TIME'S President Roy Larsen, then TIME'S circulation manager and radio producer. The programs evolved into the famous MARCH OF TIME series of radio news dramatizations. The voice that we heard in the ABC control room was that of the former MARCH OF TIME narrator, the man known to a generation of Americans...
...Larsen heard Van's voice and hired him for the MARCH OF TIME. Van became the Voice of Fate, intoning : "As it must to all men, Death came to . . ." The next year, he followed Ted Husing and Harry Von Zell as the announcer-narrator for the MARCH OF TIME. During the next two decades, men, women and children who heard him on the radio, and in movies, made a national game of trying to imitate Van's intonation of "the MARCH OF TIME" and "TIME marches...
...their old tricks. Patching, shifting, always finagling with his lineup, Manager Casey Stengel still manages to keep the Yankees in contention. In August, "Bullet" Bob Turley began to look like the pennant-winning pitcher he seemed to be when he was bought from the Baltimore Orioles, but Righthander Don Larsen, home from a summer on the Yankees' Denver farm, is the man who makes the difference. With three victories in three starts, he has helped to revive an old Yankee habit: making those pin-stripe uniforms convince a ballplayer that he is just a little better than he ought...
...Spirit and wins a couple of cavalry skirmishes, there were apparently not enough extras left to stage Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn. So, curiously, the picture dispenses with most of it. Suzan Ball flutters her eyelids as Mature's squaw, and Ray Danton, Keith Larsen and Robert Warwick are equally improbable as a trio of braves...
...Hollywood. A freewheeling, full-color CinemaScopic plunge into the anachronistic past, the film is based on the parable of the prodigal son according to St. Luke, but the scenario is jazzed up with additional story by a trio of latter-day prophets (Maurice Zimm, Joe Breen Jr., Samuel James Larsen...