Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Book (Johnny Standley; Capitol). Something about "grandma's lye soap," in which Comedian Standley wows a studio audience and makes it clap hands in unison...
...Crown Prince Wilhelm, with Prussian humor, jovially smeared mashed potatoes in his face. He even enjoyed it when the Crown Prince emptied a jug of water over him and his elder brother Wilhelm as they lay in bed at night. Lulu objected, however, when his governess made him eat soap as a minor punishment, and he got fighting mad when tangled in royalism's red tape. Once, when he was about seven, he slipped free of it for a moment, when no one was looking, and actually crossed a street all by himself...
...Truman until public exposure embarrassed him. But this does not mean the Government is the reeking "top to bottom mess" Eisenhower says it is. Six-tenths of one percent of Government employees have been accused of or indicted for malpractice, leaving the Administration only slightly more sullied than Ivory soap. Bue even if .00001 of the three million Government employees were corrupt, newspapers could still have a scandal a day for a year. And since scandals always rate front page newspaper space over day-to-day honesty, people are bound to get a swollen impression of corruption in Government. Aware...
Financially Herter is far behind Dever. Neither he nor the Republican State Committee can afford the lavish posters and full-page newspaper advertisements Dever is using. So far, Herter has managed to counter with slushy soap-box radio commercials on local stations. The commercials have a simple plot: a wife complains to her husband about corruption in the state administration, wails "why did I vote for him in 1950," and together husband and wife sobbingly declare they will "vote this time for Chris Herter...
Radio listeners in Russia can thrill to the sudsy sentiment of soap opera like anyone else. Last week Radio Moscow fed their dreams with a tender play about a collective farm boy and a girl tractor-driver whom fate had chanced to place on the same (moonlit) night shift...