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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soap opera's biggest single earner (as high as $250,000 a year) is a 43-year-old ex-Ohio schoolmarm named Irna Phillips. Weekday mornings the 45 characters of her three current shows (The Guiding Light, Today's Children, The Woman in White) troop past an NBC microphone in 45 minutes of virtually nonstop emotionalism. Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, Writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft. She called it "social significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: With Significance | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...music the power to charm women radio listeners away from their addiction to soap operas? NBC's supersales-minded President Niles Trammell thinks that maybe it has. This week he began gambling $10,000 a week - a record outlay for an unsponsored daytime network show -to put Fred Waring's orchestra on the fiercely competitive morning air (Mon.-Fri., 11-11:30, E.W.T.). To give the Waring broadcast every break against such popular rivals as Tom Breneman's burbling Breakfast in Hollywood (Blue, 11 a.m., E.W.T.), 137 NBC stations cleared time - even to dropping local commercial programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Morning Music | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Harry J. Tuthill tried about everything. He worked in a chair factory and as chief assistant can-washer in a dairy; peddled picture frames, baking powder and soap on the road; took a mail-order course in steam engineering; courted the belle of Springfield, Ill. ("Beautiful creature-she later married a brakeman.") He joined a street carnival as barker and sold the Perfesser's cure with a medicine show. In 1919 he became a comic-strip artist, began drawing The Bungles. By last week he was good & tired of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bungles Bopped | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...soil for epidemics is ready for planting-far more refugees than in 1918, people without homes, people without food or soap. But fortunately, reports General Draper, most stay-at-home western Europeans have come through the war in fairly good condition. The French death rate actually dropped during German occupation (to 16.9 per 1,000 in 1943 compared with a U.S. rate of 10.9) even though individual rations were 500 calories a day less than the average 2,500-a-day requirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Postwar Pestilence? | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...Melted Skeletons. Buchenwald is something of a showplace now, nine days after it was liberated, and there are certain things you have to see. There were two ovens there, each with six openings. It was a clean room with no smell. At one end was a wash basin with soap still in the dish and a door leading to the "Büro or office. At the other was a plaque hung high on the wall, black with a symbolic flame painted on it and a quotation from some German poet: "Let not disgusting worms consume my body . . . give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buchenwald | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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