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Cbs-Norman Corwin-On A Note Of Triumph

News & Public Service · May 8, 1945 · 59 min · 7,077 words

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they've given up. They're finally done in and the rat is dead in an alley back of the villa elmstrasseur. Take a bow, GI. Take a bow, little guy. The superman of tomorrow lies dead at the feet of you common men of this afternoon. This is it, kid. This is the day, all the way from Newburyport to Vladivostok. You had what it took and you gave it, and each

of you as a hunk of rain by round your helmet. Seems like three men have done it again! By popular request the Columbia Broadcasting System presents a repeat performance of On a Note of Triumph, a special broadcast written directed and produced by Norman Corwin for the day of victory. Martin Gable is narrator and the music is by Bernard Herman. Martin Gable

In Norman Corwin's on a note of triumph. Victory is sweet dish, isn't it? And how do you think those lights look in Europe after five years of blackout going under six?

Rather, pretty good. Pretty good, sister. The kids of Poland soon will know what an orange tastes like. And the smell of honest-to-god bread freshly made and saw thus free will create a stir in the streets of Athens.

There's a hot time in the old town of Neapropotrubs tonight, and it is reasonable to assume the same goes for a thousand other cities, including some Scandinavian. It can at last be said without jinxing the campaign.

Somehow, the decadent democracies, the bungling Bolsheviks, the saps and softies, were tougher in the end than the brown-shirt bully-boys, and smarter too, but without whipping a priest, burning a book or slugging a Jew, without corralling a girl in a brothel or bleeding a child for plasma, far flung ordinary men, unspectacular but free, rousing out of their habits in their homes, got up early one morning,

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