Word: serialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those eight months the white-crested Hoosier has endured much. Like a movie-serial heroine, he has been politically shot, stabbed, poisoned, garroted, sawed into short lengths, burned, decimated, smothered, bumped off, rubbed out. He has been "given the business...
...outshone by Griffin, Shinola shoe polish also took to the air last Saturday (10 to 10:30 a.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...
...seven years, General Mills' program has been a housewives' serial called "Betty & Bob." This couple have about exhausted the possibilities of broadcastable domestic experience. Last week Betty & Bob laid plans to move to the country, after listening to a religious radio program called "Light of the World." This, curiously, was General Mills' new Monday-to-Friday quarter-hour*-Bible stories, beginning with Adam & Eve. Mindful of the holy row churchmen kicked up the last time Adam & Eve were on the air-as performed by Don Ameche and Mae West-the sponsors hired not only Protestant Moffatt...
Nobody was more surprised than MGM officials to wake up one night to find that Love Finds Andy Hardy was being enthusiastically received in all the best movie houses. Here was MGM with a serial gold mine on its hands and a surprising new star, an appealing Irish roughneck who had twined his boyish fingers around the heart strings of U. S. movie goers...
What Jack Hill and his fellow fans find so absorbing about Superman is not simply their hero's imperviousness and giant strength but his ability to fly through the air. Last week Superman took to the air* in earnest, as a three-a-week serial. His sponsor: H-O oats (Hecker Products Corp...