Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, to Japanese radio listeners, American-style soap opera was a popular import. But by last week the pleasant novelty was wearing thin. The sad fact is that Japanese audiences do not enjoy the soap opera's daily cliff-hang ending. As one top Japanese radio-TV official says: "They love intense drama, but it has to be short and complete...
Outstanding current soap operas in Japan are Himawari Musume (Sunflower Maiden), about a teen-ager who has just got an office job and is spatting with her mother over unchaperoned dates; Saku-ranbo Taisho (General Cherry), a war orphan who was in hot water last week because he made fun of the school principal's bald head; and the liveliest of the lot, Eriko To Tomo Ni (Together with Eriko), starring 26-year-old Michiko...
...engagement at a Miami nightclub, Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia Gamal, bride of Texas Playboy (Shepherd) Abdullah King, sniffed the U.S. air, announced that American women "use too much soap. I take a bath twice every week, and the other days I sponge myself with olive oil. It would be better if American girls shined a little...
...hung on a moving belt in Jewell's processing plant and killed, plucked, cleaned and rolled into a tunnel, where they are frozen stiff for shipping by a blast of 30-below-zero wind at 40 m.p.h. Jewell wastes little of the chicken. From the insides he makes soap oils and "tankage," which goes back into feed. From feathers he makes fertilizer...
...Life's Companion (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). A song that asks the soap-opera question: Can a man who is only 33 find peace & contentment? Clooney's answer: love me and you will never grow older than 33. The other side, Why Don't You Love Me? is a bouncing bet for the hit parade...