When America's sensationally popular radio serial, The Aldrich Family, went back on the air last month, Aldrich actors fidgeted nervously while General Foods kept its fingers achingly crossed. Calamity had overtaken Henry Aldrich again. This time the Army had clamped down on Sergeant Ezra Stone's once-a-week performance as The Aldrich Family's Penrodish son. So Henry was being played by another actor: Norman Tokar.
Canny, crack-voiced Ezra Stone, 24, the script's top drawing card, started as Henry Aldrich in the stage play, What a Life, from which the radio serial was concocted. The script...
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