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Storm

CBS Radio Workshop · February 10, 1956 · 29 min · 3,864 words

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Man's Crime. CBS Radio, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and its 217 affiliated stations presents the CBS Radio Workshop. Radio's distinguished series dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mine. Tonight from Hollywood, a graphic and dramatic account of one of nature's most terrifying phenomena, Storm from the famous book by George Stewart,

adapted and directed by William N. Robeson with William Conrad as narrator. Steadily, the great sphere of the earth spawned upon its axis and moved in its own varying course around the sun.

From far off Venus, a watcher of the skies, if such a one who can be imagined to exist, But it is a more brilliant planet than any to be seen by us as men. It gave no sign that storms or men disturbed its tranquil round, right against the black of midnight, or yellow in the

dawning, the earth hung in the sky, unflickering and serene. San Francisco, whether you're on prayer tonight, Wednesday, no change in temperature, moderate Northwest winds, you're Welcome. The same forecast day after day, week after week.

The junior meteorologist wanted to yell blizzards thunder, lightning, and hurricanes. But as long as that high pressure area hung off the coast of the Bissane, Fahrenheit and tomorrow, no change in temperature. This wasn't whether it was a boar, and nothing on this morning's weather map could change it.

Are there worse storms? Plenty of them are always somewhere else. Sylvia, an old friend, was now over Boston, dumping a heavy fall of snow before she swept on across the Atlantic. Felicia, for a thing, wasn't doing too well.

By all indications, she would die in the fastnesses of the Northwest territory. But Cornelia, the junior meteorologist, was proud of Cornelia. A big, full-bodied dowager of a storm, 400 miles at sea southeast of Dutch harbor.

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