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1489 Words

CBS Radio Workshop · February 10, 1957 · 25 min · 2,024 words

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From Hollywood, the CBS Radio Workshop. They say one picture is worth 10,000 words. I wonder, is it? CBS Radio presents the CBS Radio Workshop, dedicated to man's imagination, the Theater of the Mind.

The Theater of the Mind were words create pictures. Here then are fourteen hundred and eighty-nine words, the voice of William Conrad and the music of Jerry Goldsmith. Mr. Conrad, thank you. With no prejudice against pictures that are worth ten thousand words, we will bring you in the next half hour fourteen hundred and eighty-nine words which are worth innumerable

pictures. how many only you can tell for, well, it's the magic of your imagination that will paint them. We begin with nine hundred and fifty-six words arranged by the English poet Alfred Nois, into a pattern he called, The Highwayman. Mr. Gosemith, if you please, overture for the The High Women.

It was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. The moon was a ghostly galley and tossed upon cloudy seas.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor. And the High Women came riding, riding, riding. The High Women came riding after the old indoor. It a French car car on its forehead, a bunch of lace at its chin, a coat of the clarinet velvet, and as breeches of brown dust, and they fed it with never a wrinkle, his boots were up to the

thigh, and he rode with a jolt twinkle, his pistol butts a twinkle, his rabia held a twinkle under the jolt sky. Over the cobbles he cluttered and clashed in the dark in the yard, and he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and fired. He whistled a tune to the window, and

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