Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called Unchained Melody. It became a No. 1 hit. Now he asks $3,000 and up a week for appearances, plays the gaudiest spots in the biggest towns. Between dates he stays at home in Teaneck, N.J. with his wife, listening to the radio. "They tell good stories, those soap operas," he says. "Songs have good plots too, sometimes. If they do, that's when I like them. When I sing, I like to tell the plot...
...Matinee-time the children in many homes are napping and housewives are resting from their homework. "But," says McCleery, "people like honest, literate stuff at any time, not the soap-opera kind." Monday he gives them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people...
...many women long to prove-that because a woman is 35 or more, romance in life need not be over." Bringing this inspiring message of hope to almost 4,000,000 listeners over the facilities of 203 nation-spanning stations, Helen has developed into 1) the queen of soap operas; and 2) the ideal of the romantically minded U.S. housewife of a certain...
These lavender soap-opera elements are neatly mixed by Novelist Howard; skilled writing and a mother-in-law's eye for weakness of character make this novel a cucumber-sandwich cut above the average summer reading for women. It is one more study in the strange and terrifying fissures that scar the once sturdy heart of the British middle class. The means employed are female. Yet the reader with an attentive eye can see, as did Poet Wystan Auden, how "the crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead...
...year long, American athletes have been popping records like soap bubbles, so far have set new world marks in ten events. In the 24 Olympic track and field events, U.S. athletes right now are good bets to win 13 first places, and, in a few-the pole vault, shotput, 800 meters, etc.-Americans may well finish one-two-three. Nine long-legged American Olympic prospects have high-jumped higher than the Olympic record (6 ft. 8¼ in. by the U.S.'s Walter Davis); three have tossed the shot over 60 ft. (far past the Olympic mark...