Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show had the best of intentions: "To bring listeners the wisdom and beauty of the Bible in dramatic, exciting form." But Chapter I of Katharine Seymour's eleven episodes about Adam & Eve was more soap opera than Scripture. Excerpts: "As the years passed, Adam & Eve [played by Phil Clarke, 43, and Eleanor Phelps, 30-odd, in their best Sunday voices], haunted always by memories of the paradise they had lost, struggled to build a new life for themselves and their children. ... It is an afternoon in early summer. . . . Eve, preparing the evening meal . . . looks up eagerly as her husband...
...make interesting reading for anyone trying to figure out how Russia will behave on the world stage in the next few years. By 1950, if the present plan is completely fulfilled, each Russian will still have less sugar than in 1913, less beef and mutton than in 1929, less soap and oil than in 1937, less pork than in 1938, less living space, shoes & stockings than...
...daily hour apiece (staggered through the day); newspapers printed "classroom" schedules. Director Allen Miller of the Rocky Mountain Radio Council auditioned 200 teachers, picked the pleasantest voices. With teachers looking over their shoulders, scriptwriters pressure-cooked daily programs about music, art, English, history, math. Sample, delivered in the best soap-opera style: a science story about a little girl who hears a newscast announcing the coal strike, gets her father (by coincidence, a chemist) to tell her all about coal...
...daily bath prevents the disease. Three to six injections of arsenical drugs clear it up. Penicillin cures it permanently, apparently without danger of reinfection. But for lack of soap, water and penicillin, 80% of the people of Haiti are afflicted with the foul, rotting disease known as yaws. That was the grim news last week from a U.S. Sanitary Mission which has been manfully fighting yaws in Haiti for nearly three years-with little success...
...strategically placed clinics, the mission's chief, ex-Army Major Edwin L. Dudley, a onetime Wake Forest football star, and his staff of doctors had administered 80,000 arsenical injections a month. But among Haiti's poverty-stricken masses, for whom even in normal times soap is an out-of-reach luxury, arsenical treatment is not much more effective than a revolving door. Reinfection occurs quickly...