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Two hours earlier than usual, we are presenting at this time the Corwin show starring Charles Loughton. We will interrupt the broadcast for any late news developments. Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win.

Brother may yet line up with brother. Columbia presents Corwin. From Hollywood, Norman Corwin brings you the first of three broadcasts entitled An American Trilogy. starring the eminent actor Charles Loughton in special adaptations of the works of three American writers, Carl Sandberg, Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman.

Each program will be narrated by Mr. Loughton and scored by Bernard Herman. Tonight, Charles Loughton in Norman Corwin's production of Sandberg. Nothing we can pass with, nothing we can say goodbye to, nothing of material and practical contribution is to be mentioned for comparison with the pouring out of the blood of our picked on altars dedicated to national existence and the rainbow hopes of the

far freedoms death carries majesty the dust of vanished youth can be sacred the The phantom of a good fighting man can come back asking, How goes the flag I fought for? Has any man's dream of a better world been helped?

Who do you think you are? What do you think you come from? From toenails to the head of your head, you're mixed to the earth of the air. Listen to the laboratory man, tell you what you made of man.

Listen, Wally, take your part. Weighing 150 pounds, you hold 3,500 cubic feet of gas, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen. From the 22 pounds and 10 ounces of carbon in you is a filling for 9,000 lead pencils.

In your blood are 50 grains of iron. And in the rest of your frame, enough iron to make a spike that would hold your weight. You're a walking drug store. And a cosmos. And a phantasmagoria treading a lonesome valley.