I meant that you’re a different type of woman in a different type of profession.
Your writing style might still be a bit unwieldy, but I’d rather have the passion that you pour onto every page
and into this brave new world of radio than all of the typewriter taping, monochromatic, milk-toast men who preceded you.
Betty, you’re more than just a person to me…you’re a pioneer.
And someday you’re going to be sitting in an office just like that, an inspiration to other young women like yourself.
Episode 56: All's Noisy on the Pittsburgh Front
And here's the new programming schedule that I'm proposing:
emphasis on news, documentaries about the historical context of the Axis and Allied alignment, patriotic essays...
I don't see Hands of Time...or Valiant Journey.
Well, I thought that soap operas would seem so trivial compared to the immense human drama that we're now all...
There's no Custard the Clown.
...a part of.
No Glint Grab-Bag.
Yes, I've brought comedy and variety down to almost nothing...
Betty!
I mean war's no laughing matter.
What do you think this country is fighting for, hm? Life. Liberty. And the right to do silly radio programs.
We're not just fighting for France, Betty, we're fighting for Frank Sinatra crooning,
Johnny Weissmuller lagooning, Captain Ahab harpooning, Bugs Bunny cartooning.
This is more than just Mother, Love, and Country. This is for Moe, Larry, and Curly.
I was trying to do, you know, the responsible thing.
I had the same first impulse myself, then I realized that the reason we are in this thing is so that men and women of every race and creed
can come home after a hard day's work and take a beer out of the icebox and sit in their underwear listening to Rance Shiloh, US Marshall.
The day we lose Custard the Clown, Betty, we've lost the war.
