Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html
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Collection Number:
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Coll. 072
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Creator:
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Norton, Henry M., 1906-1975
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Title:
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Henry M. Norton Papers
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Dates:
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1942-1952, 1970-1975 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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1 linear feet (4 containers
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in English.
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Summary:
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Henry M. Norton (1906-1975) was a writer of magazine stories and radio and television scripts. He also taught writing. The collection includes correspondence, magazine stories, radio and television scripts, teaching materials, and financial ledgers.
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Biographical Note
Born in 1906 and a native of Ritzville, Washington, Henry M. Norton graduated from the University of Washington and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1937.
During his career, he worked as a copy writer for The Oregonian, and was production manager at KGW radio and television station prior to becoming manager of the Portland Symphony n 1958.
Norton was also a freelance fiction writer and had several stories published in national magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Argosy, Atlantic Monthly and Harper's. During World War II, Norton also frequently published detective diction. Not only did Norton write fiction, he became a skilled copy writer for radio and television, working with the BBC, among others.
In the early 1970s, Norton taught classes in technical writing and television and radio script writing at Mt. Hood Community College, and held private seminars at his home. He also worked briefly with the Professional Writers School, a correspondence study course for beginning writers. His work with this organization included written responses and critical analyses of individual student writing assignments.
In addition to these various activities, Norton was active in the Willamette Writers Association, and was co-founder of Golden House, an organization providing radio programs to shut-ins, the elderly, and the blind. Henry Norton died in 1975.
Content Description
The Henry M. Norton Papers contain correspondence, magazine stories, television and radio scripts, teaching material, and two financial ledgers. The material in this collection covers the periods 1941-1952, and 1970-1975. Material representing the years between 1953 and 1969 is not a part of this collection.
The correspondence is arranged chronologically from 1942-1975, a large segment of which is from his two literary agents, Lurton Blassingame and Carl Brandt. The remaining correspondence consists of assorted replies from magazines regarding acceptance and rejection of his stories. In the years 1971 and 1972, Norton wrote critiques of student correspondence work, provide examples of his personal writing philosophy.
This collection contains 57 of Norton's published magazine stories of detective and miscellaneous fiction. They are arranged alphabetically by title of story and are dated from 1942 to 1949. Also included are the introductory and concluding pieces of the script for episodes of the BBC's Hungry Eye Theatre. With this television copy is an assortment of press reviews and story line summaries regarding the television series. In addition to the Hungry Eye Theatre scripts, there are four miscellaneous television scripts.
The teaching material includes publicity, grade sheets and lecture notes from courses taught for Mt. Hood Community College and the Oregon Sate System of Higher Education's Division of Continuing Education. There are also lecture notes from a privately taught seminar entitled, Writing: Style and Substance.
The reminder of the collection consists of two financial ledgers, one covering 1942-1947, the other 1948-1950. The ledgers are divided into monthly segments and show columns that demonstrate earnings from published stores and expenses for writing that include rent, magazine subscriptions, reams of paper and typewriter ribbons.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series: Correspondence
Series: Magazine Stories
Series: Radio Scripts
Series: Television Scripts
Series: Teaching Material
Series: Ledgers
Series: Addendum
Administrative Information
Processing Note Collection processed by Shelli Wicklund, Manuscripts Processor, August 1974.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Henry M. Norton Papers, Coll. 072, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| American literature--20th century |
| Authors, American--20th century |
| Authors, American--Oregon |
| Creative writing--Study and teaching |
| Detective and mystery stories, American--Authorship |
| Radio authorship |
| Television authorship |
| Detective fiction |
| Fiction |
| Scripts |
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Correspondence
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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Correspondence
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1942 |
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Correspondence
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1943 |
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Correspondence
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1944 |
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Correspondence
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January 1945-July 1945 |
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Correspondence
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August 1945-December 1945 |
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Correspondence
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1946 |
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Correspondence
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1947 |
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Correspondence
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January 1948-August 1948 |
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Correspondence
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September 1948-December 1948 |
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Correspondence
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January 1949-July 1949 |
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Correspondence
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August 1949-December 1949 |
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Correspondence
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1950 |
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Correspondence
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1951 |
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Correspondence
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1952 |
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Correspondence
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1970 |
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Correspondence
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March 1971-December 1971 |
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Correspondence
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October 1971-November 1971 |
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Correspondence
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December 1971 |
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Correspondence
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January 1972-October 1972 |
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Correspondence
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1973 |
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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1974 |
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Correspondence
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1975 |
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Magazine Stories
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Container(s)
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Description
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Dates
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"Big Town Payoff," Detective Book
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1942 |
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The Black Door, unpublished [?]
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"Case of the Three Blonde Mice," Detective Tales
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1946 |
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"Circus Kill," Private Detective
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1946 |
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"Come Die with Me," Private Detective
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1943 |
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"Corpse About Town," Detective Story
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1943 |
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"Dear Killer," Detective Tales
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1945 |
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"Death comes with the Salmon," Argosy
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1943 |
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"Death with Sound Effects," Detective Story
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1946 |
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"Die, Die Black Sheep," Private Detective
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1944 |
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"Double or Anything," Maclean's
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1948 |
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"Driven to Kill," Detective Story
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1947 |
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"Easy Out," Super Detective
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1945 |
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"Forgive Us Our Deaths," Detective Story
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1943 |
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"A Fortune in Fish" Argosy
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1944 |
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"For Whom the Bell Kills," Argosy
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1944 |
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"Genius Working," The Australian Women's Weekly
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1948 |
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"Ghost in a Dinner Jacket," Detective Story
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1948 |
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"Goose Creek Road," Farm Journal
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1946 |
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"The Haunted Shirt," The Saturday Evening Post
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1947 |
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"How Dead Was My Valet?" Crack Detective
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1944 |
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"Here's Homicide," Black Mask
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1945 |
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"A Horse He Can Ride," The Toronto Star Weekly
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"Ill Moider Tha Bum," Crack Detective
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1943 |
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"Ill Slay You Later," New Detective
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1943 |
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"In the Dead Man's Steps," Detective Tales
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1947 |
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"Invisible Fleet," Western Family
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1947 |
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"Jackal Kill," Hollywood Detective
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1945 |
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"The Knight of Death," Detective Book
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1943 |
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"The Lady Lied," (incomplete) Private Detective
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1943 |
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"Maestro for the Dead," Detective Tales
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"Miracle at Durango," The Virginia Quarterly Review
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"Murder Can Wait," Crack Detective
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"Murderer's Way," Black Mask
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"Murder Takes an Encore," New Detective
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"Mystery of the Fancy," The Toronto Star Weekly
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1946 |
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"The Natural," Cosmopolitan
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1949 |
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"No Tears for the Lady," Dime Detective
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1944 |
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"Once Upon a tomb," Dime Detective
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1946 |
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"One Must Die," Detective Fiction
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"100,000 Postwar Receipt," Nation's Business
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1944 |
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"Pool of Death," Dime Detective
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1944 |
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"Prison in Space," Amazing Stories
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"Red Runs the River," Private Detective
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"The Right to Kill," Private Detective
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"Sailboat Patrol," Argosy
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1944 |
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"Sheriff Lovatt's Death Watch," Detective Tales
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1946 |
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"The Singing Dead," Detective Fiction
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1943 |
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"Slayer's Playday," Ten Detective Aces
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1945 |
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"The Soft Touch," Collier's
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1946 |
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"Soldier's Return," Private Detective
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"The Square Root of All Evil," Detective Tales
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"Sucker's Fury," Dime Detective
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1948 |
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"These Also Die" Detective Story
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"Who'll Buy My Violence?" Speed Detective
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1945 |
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"You Bet Your Life," Speed Detective
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1946 |
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"Young Man With Ideas," Cosmopolitan
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Radio Scripts
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"Along the Oregon Trail
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"Forestry Research in Action," #76, #77, #78
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Rodeo narration
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Television Scripts
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--Publicity copy
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1975 |
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--"An Imaginative Woman," introduction
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1975 |
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--"Nana," summary and press reviews
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--"Nana," episodes 1-5 (introduction and conclusion)
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--"Roads to Freedom," summary and press reviews
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Hungry Eye Theatre, British Broadcasting Company. Thomas Hard Series--"Roads to Freedom," episodes 1-13 (introduction and conclusion)
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KLAS--Las Vegas, Nevada,
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1975 |
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KOAP--Portland, Oregon, "Nana," episode 1 (introduction and conclusion)
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O.E.P.B.S.--Anniversary Broadcast
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1972 |
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Professional Writers School, Television spot and publicity
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Teaching Material
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Description
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Dates
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Oregon State System of Higher Education, Division of Continuing Education, Technical Writing Course, lecture notes
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1972 |
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Mt. Hood Community College: publicity; grade sheets
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Mt. Hood Community College: Lecture notes
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Private seminar, Writing: Style and Substance
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Ledgers
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Container(s)
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Dates
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Ledger
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1942-1947 |
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Ledger
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1948-1950 |
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Addendum, February 1985
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Short story: "The Man in the Mood," published in Invaders of Earth (New York: Vanguard Press, Inc.)
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1952 |
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Television script: documentary about Charles Ives, American composer, written in 1974 or 1975 for PBS (photocopy)
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