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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soap opera is an island. When Helen Trent died in June, the bell was really tolling for Ma Perkins, The Second Mrs. Burton and all their kin. Over the past decade radio networks have been steadily losing time to their affiliated stations (who prefer to schedule local disk jockeys, with whom they can make far more money). Across the country fewer stations scheduled network drama every season; sooner or later the "soaps" had to go. NBC scrapped them at the beginning of this year. Last week CBS announced that the last seven on the air would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Death in the Afternoon | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...Comedy Showcase (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). They Went Thataway, a western parody, with James Westerfield as Black Ace Burton, a no-hit gun fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 15, 1960 | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Rerun of Freedom for the Philippines, produced by Burton Benjamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

Actor Ryan's plane has crashed on a glacier. Will Actor Burton rescue his enemy before Warner Bros, runs out of celluloid? A more chilling question, for everyone except possibly the inhabitants of Rhode Island: After Texas (Giant) and Alaska, where will Edna Ferber strike next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...downward, proved to be the 371st spoken word on the page ("I then divided that number, 371, by 53, the number of the page, and the quotient was seven!"). According to the Donnelly lucky-seven countdown, it turned out that Bacon wrote not only Shakespeare, but all of Marlowe, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays. The Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford boom was drummed up in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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