NORMAN CORWIN (above), who won radio's Peabody Award for his script of "We Hold These Truths," has been hailed as the foremost dramatist in radio. "His programme," declared the committee which made the award, "demonstrated what patriotism and a fine dramatic sense could do seven days after Pearl Harbour." Mr. Corwin, who is 31 years old, entered radio by. accident. He was a reporter on a. Springfield (Massachusetts) newspaper when he was given an audition for a spare-time job of reading news bulletins over his local station. A short time later he was bound for New York and a career in radio, A phenomenal worker, during one six months' period he wrote and directed an original drama every week, Currently he is writing a Saturday night programme "This Is War," which is broadcast over combined U.S. news networks. His best scripts have been collected in a book "Thirteen by Corwin," with a preface of Carl Van Doren.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 157, 26 June 1942, Page 6
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157NORMAN CORWIN (above), who won radio's Peabody Award for his script of "We Hold These Truths," has been hailed as the foremost dramatist in radio. "His programme," declared the committee which made the award, "demonstrated what patriotism and a fine dramatic sense could do seven days after Pearl Harbour." Mr. Corwin, who is 31 years old, entered radio by. accident. He was a reporter on a. Springfield (Massachusetts) newspaper when he was given an audition for a spare-time job of reading news bulletins over his local station. A short time later he was bound for New York and a career in radio, A phenomenal worker, during one six months' period he wrote and directed an original drama every week, Currently he is writing a Saturday night programme "This Is War," which is broadcast over combined U.S. news networks. His best scripts have been collected in a book "Thirteen by Corwin," with a preface of Carl Van Doren. New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 157, 26 June 1942, Page 6
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