Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show like Peyton Place, ABC's twice-weekly soap opera, there's no future for a female character after she's finally married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush...
...RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious...
...PEYTON PLACE, Grace Metalious...
...Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold 1,652,837 hard-cover copies since it was published in 1944. Such once eminently respectable figures are dwarfed by the paperback trade. Peyton Place has sold only 600,000 copies in hard cover since 1956, but paperback sales added 9,300,000 more...
Problem of Conscience. Sanchez openly courted Jeannette, parked his official black Cadillac limousine in front of her home so often that the neighbors got in the habit of gathering outside to wave at him as he left. Jokesters even started calling the area "Peyton Place." Yet, unlike many Puerto Rican men, Sanchez could not bring himself to conduct a covert affair. It was, he explained, "a problem of conscience. People say, 'You ought to hide the car.' But if it's something worthwhile and honest, how can you go underground? I felt I owed it to myself...