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Outstanding current soap operas in Japan are Himawari Musume (Sunflower Maiden), about a teen-ager who has just got an office job and is spatting with her mother over unchaperoned dates; Saku-ranbo Taisho (General Cherry), a war orphan who was in hot water last week because he made fun of the school principal's bald head; and the liveliest of the lot, Eriko To Tomo Ni (Together with Eriko), starring 26-year-old Michiko...
...Cliffordsville was really a tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend: it is a fairly quiet story of a psychiatrist's effort to keep a fantastically high-I.Q. teen-ager on an even keel...
...nothing really funny about it. As is the case with much American humor, the intended comedy depends solely upon exaggeration. In this particular mishap, a maudlin youth called Willy Baxter goes through the throes of his first love. While Baxter may be hailed as the first American teen-ager, his traumas are highly contrived and distorted. He behaves in a mawkish manner that is neither amusing nor credible...
...Lucky Stars (Sun. 10:45 p.m., ABC) is a folksy, unsponsored 15 minutes with Paul Whiteman spinning 20-year-old records and reminiscing about the good old days ("I can remember when Bing Crosby had hair and was a tenor"). Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect...
Scripps was born on an Illinois farm, but he never let hayseed get into his hair. He was "the laziest boy in the county" and proud of it. Though he flopped at woodchopping and milking, he was a whiz when it came to moneymaking. He was still a teen-ager when he organized a wood & coal business and set teams of schoolboys to doing farm work for him. While his pals labored, Edward perched on a rail fence or reclined in the shade reading a book...