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...Smith, all warmed up and ready to go, hit the air with a diatribe on Americans and the War Effort. Blowing like a grampus, garrumphy, irascible Cotton Ed got so interested in his work (denouncing New Deal regimentation) that he skipped a paragraph, turned the page of his script and came upon the middle of an entirely unrelated sentence about gasoline rationing. Twenty interminable, script-shuffling seconds later listeners on 118 stations heard his frustrated bellow...
William Faulkner, 45, literary expert in the subhumanities, reached the end of a year's labor at Warner Bros, at some $500 a week, was working on the script of a supercolossal about war, to be called Battle Cry. He had not written a complete script during the year, nor any books or stories, thought he might do some writing if he got a vacation...
...Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background in 1939 and 1940, when he traveled widely in the U.S., lecturing on literature, and gave a course at Cornell for one term. Some of his book let's suggestions...
There were other causes, and the script touched on some of them (Ku Kluxers and similar agitators) as well as on citizens who had the guts to stand against the mob. The script wound up with quotes from the Berlin and Tokyo radio propaganda playing up the riots (". . . the problem of labor and capital cannot be solved by the present rulers of the U.S.A. . . . hundreds of Negroes were sacrificed on the altar of the American white superiority complex...
...broadcast was carried by 96 CBS affiliated stations (some 25 in the South and Southwest). None of them was obliged to (the script was read to them over a closed wire before the broadcast). The program's author-producer-director, William N. Robson (TIME, March 8), thinks that the ether has been broken and that CBS can now go ahead to air other topical problems (inflation, black markets, etc.). To lend the race program authority, CBS had gotten Wendell Willkie to close it. The fact that his warm plea for tolerance was definitely an anticlimax was perhaps the best...