Quotes from John Dunning

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

We're all running away. Some of us just don't get very far.

Based on the Robert A. Heinlein novel Space Cadet, the series followed the adventures of Solar Guards trainees 400 years hence (as in the TV show, the exact correlating date was used, so the radio series was set in 2352).

His death nearly occurred at the microphone: on a People's Platform discussion of Hitlerism, Jan. 23, 1943, he collapsed in the studio while the program continued uninterrupted. Woollcott died about four hours later, a victim of a heart attack that developed into a cerebral hemorrhage

The early shows had the breath of Victorian melodrama: the music had a tingling quality, of time running out or fate closing in. The narration enhanced it: … the hushed voice and the prowling step … the stir of nerves at the ticking of the clock … the rescue that might be too late, or the murderer who might get away … we invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in … Suspense

His radio show was brisk and never lacked color. Initially seen as a gossip show, it gradually broadened its scope until Winchell the grade school dropout was routinely commenting on affairs of state. In the early '30s he got on Hitler's case, terming the Nazis "thugs, racketeers, and hoodlums.

But the highlight of The Third Man was the haunting zither theme, which the film had propelled to worldwide attention. Anton Karas (discovered by film director Carol Reed playing in a Vienna bistro) wrote it, played it, and grew rich on its royalties.

His unofficial headquarters was a table at the Stork Club, where he could be seen in conversation with all types of tipsters and newsmakers. He became friends with J. Edgar Hoover and had his car fitted with a police radio, a siren, and a flashing red light. Sometimes he beat the police to holdup scenes.

Carrington got generally higher marks from critics than most of her daytime competition. Though Rosemary was cited for its "realistic approach to life," such devices as amnesia (in fact a rare malady that seemed to infect soap opera characters almost weekly) gave it the breathless "tune in tomorrow" edge they all had.

The most notable prizewinner on This Is My Story was 13–year-old Louise Applewhite, who appealed to President Roosevelt because the hospitals in her hometown were so packed with polio victims that she could not get proper treatment. Roosevelt sent a B-17 and a medical crew at once to fetch her to his Warm Springs Foundation. This show was replayed on the series in April 1945, the Saturday after Roosevelt's death.

But he began to lampoon the rise of Hitler, and soon his life was entangled in global politics. He was playing an engagement in Stockholm when the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, and, believing himself to be on Hitler's "extermination list," he escaped to New York with his wife. He arrived in the United States with no personal belongings and ignorant of American customs and speech.

Rogers's closing signature, encompassing his Christian ideals and his belief in the Golden Rule, became a radio classic: "Goodbye, good luck, and may the good Lord take a likin' to ya.

But almost from the beginning, Vallee's special ability as a talent scout came to the fore. He plucked Alice Faye out of the chorus in George White's Scandals and sent her to vocal and film stardom. He found Frances Langford singing on a small station in Florida. Beatrice Lillie, Milton Berle, and Phil Baker got their first major radio exposure on the Vallee show.

The arrival of Anton M. Leader as director in 1948 caused few changes. Leader discontinued the veritable rep company (Cathy Lewis, Lurene Tuttle, Joseph Kearns, Wally Maher, etc.) that Spier had used for supporting roles: now there would be open auditions.

When the series outlived original material, she created new stories, but used some character or incident in the canon as her jump-off point. So successful was she at capturing the color of the written word that she drew warm praise from Conan Doyle's widow and son. Denis Conan Doyle, watching from the sponsor's booth as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce became his father's characters in a 1941 radio play, pronounced it "admirable, absolutely admirable.

and go look and see the book was missing from that back room.

The show would be an anthology, though there would be a single Ranger hero. The slant would be modern: the cases would span the time from ca. 1928–48, well within the working life of a single Ranger. Pursuit would be by automobile, though the Ranger would have a horse trailer attached to his vehicle, so that at any moment he might pack off after a killer into the back country.

Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrea as Ranger Pearson! Texas!… More than 260,000 square miles! And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America!

that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day. "Most people are liberals when they drink their morning coffee and conservatives after a hard day's work,

Throughout his career, he was a champion of old songs: often he claimed that, in all his years on the air, he never introduced a new tune. He didn't croon, he said: he just sang 'em. His favorites were such as Dark-town Strutters' Ball and Every Cloud Must Have a Silver Lining. Frankel died June 13, 1948, but shows he had already transcribed were continued.