The most engaging of U.S. fight-talk programs, NBC's Dear Adolf, bows off the air this Sunday (Aug. 2) after six successful broadcasts. Unlike many another morale program, it is quitting before the thread shows through the tires.
Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this...
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