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...Mona Kent has no reason to be ashamed [TIME, Sept. 12] of the "stuff" she turns out for radio listeners. After all, it's a living. It is rather those, like myself, who adjust their day's schedule in order not to miss the next episode of these dreary, sordid narratives who should feel ashamed. I wonder if all of us addicts should not consult a psychiatrist...
Thus, for the 2,462nd time, Portia Faces Life (Mon. through Fri., 5:15 p.m. E.D.T., NBC) brings to its avid listeners the innermost thoughts and self-sacrificial impulses of its heroine. Considerably less bemused at Portia's unflagging nobility is her creator; in fact, tall, tense Mona Kent, writer of Portia Faces Life, is betraying her stainless heroine for the first time. In a novel to be published next week (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; Rinehart; $3), Scripter Kent tells the story of "a girl who wrote soap operas and tried to live her life according...
Since Portia is always on the air-five days a week, 52 weeks out of the year-Mona Kent had to lead a double life to get her novel written. For two weeks at a time she would concentrate on her radio show and get far enough ahead so that she could put in one week's work on the book. As a result: "The novel's slick, too, in places. Whenever I got to a dramatic point I found myself letting go with everything I learned in soap opera...
Levelheaded readers will grin at these and other ancient beliefs, which London Daily Mirror Columnists Edwin and Mona Radford have catalogued in their Encyclopaedia of Superstitions. Anyone who touches wood to forestall bad luck, or avoids walking under ladders, or refuses to light three cigarettes on a match, is not permitted, however, to grin too widely. He should read on. Some authorities hold that "touching wood" signifies touching the Holy Cross for protection; others look still further back into the past and see it as an invocation of tree spirits. A ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle, which...
...buddies. Two of them (William Holden and William Bendix) eventually go straight and get jobs as Texas Rangers. The third, MacDonald Carey, goes right on rustling cattle and robbing banks. All three, in one way or another, get romantically entangled with a pale-lipped chit of a cowgirl (Mona Freeman) who takes a pretty nearsighted view of right & wrong...