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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoes & Soap & Communists. Giuliano has been careful to build up a reputation as the friend of the common man. One of his earliest victims was Salvatore Abate, postmaster of Montelepre, Giuliano's native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Beautiful Lightning | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...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 to the sacrificial formula of her heroine." The end result: "She destroyed the lives of her husband, lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Lady Is Insecure | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Last week Iowa-born Scripter-Novelist Kent explained to the New York Herald Tribune what makes Portia and other sudsy heroines click: "Every soap-opera heroine ... is, by definition, a much stronger person than her husband or any man in her orbit . . . Possibly the Amen can woman feels actually so dependent, economically and emotionally, on her husband that she has to appease her insecurity by identifying herself with one or more soap-opera heroines whose husbands can have no secrets from them . . . [This heroine], swayed, as she is always saying, only by her love for her husband and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Lady Is Insecure | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The Lady Is Insecure | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

With "Norzon," an artificial suede fabric, the Behr-Manning Co. of Troy, N.Y. hit the jackpot. Because Norzon wears as well as real suede and can be washed with soap & water, shoemakers were quick to use it. In 2^ years they have put Norzon into an estimated 35 million pairs of shoes. But like many another company with something good to sell, Behr-Manning has been plagued by cheap imitations and complaints when the imitations did not hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOES: X-Ray Stamp | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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