Everybody?
ORE than a nodding acquaintance with fame is needed as a passport to "The Talk of the Town" department ‘of "The New Yorker." Harry Alan Towers (right), who was ifterviewed by "The Listener’ in 1947 and again last year, showed that he had it to the exteat of nearly three columns. "The New Yorker" called him "the most mobile gentleman) we've met in a long time," "the world’s largest international producer and distributor of transcribed commercial radio _ programmes." Talking over the telephone to somebody else and to the interviewer at the same time Towers said that in -'The Lives of Harry Lime" Orson Welles was Lime ond Lime was Orson, at least that was England’s reaction. Commented the American journal: "& good many of Mr. Towers’s deals . . . were too secret to mention-they were in the simmering stage-but he did admit haying seen some radio producers, some radio writers, some advertising men and some actors." He was in favour of England’s starting up commercial broadcasting to ‘supplement the BBC. "It’s thot way in New Zealand and everybody's pleased."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 24
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177Everybody? New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 24
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