Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ethical bits of glass. A story that, told as vivid theater, might blaze with Biblical fire, seems quite unwarmed. A story that, recounted as high drama, might seem grandly severe, seems elaborately hollow. Set against the Moses of Michelangelo, Fry's Moses seems solemnly carved out of soap...
...shoring Nazi military bankruptcy by drawing on the live blood bank of still-surviving Jews called for Jewish groups abroad-in London, Cairo, Istanbul and Washington-to get up the pengos, and arrange for the Nazis to turn them into 10,000 trucks full of chocolate, coffee, tea and soap...
This novel keeps the reader in suspense at the end of every chapter-waiting for the soap commercial. Can Molly Jorgenson and Johnny Hunter, teen-age lovers and troubled children of divorce, find lasting happiness by racing the stork to the altar? Will Johnny's mother Sylvia desert her alcoholic husband, with his blue-blood pedigree and red-ink bank balance, for an adulterous affair with Molly's self-made millionaire father? Is life a game of second chance or an inescapably heir-conditioned nightmare...
Last week the show put up its closing notice. Bucking giveaway shows, westerns, soap operas, and mounting production costs, Matinee Theater steadily lost viewers and sponsors, was losing money for NBC. In June, after its 665th hour-long program, the show will fade out for the last time. Likeliest replacement: a soap opera or two. Already dreaming up ten new projects for NBC, Producer Albert McCleery, 46, was ready with an epitaph: "I've been very lucky. I've been running what amounts to a national theater, the busiest one anywhere...
...meet the challenge, a short, jolly Dutchman named Paul Rykens, 69, retired board chairman of the giant Unilever, N.V. soap empire, called a meeting of European businessmen last April to explore the idea of investing on a minority basis in Arab business. When Rykens got a favorable reception, he took off on a quick tour to line up more than 80 European and U.S. firms, including such giants as the First Boston Corp., Kaiser Industries and the Rockefellers' International Basic Economy Corp. Rykens carefully avoided both governmental assistance and the oil industry, which might have aroused Arab resentment, then...