Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, C.B. made soap operas with such homely morals as "Don't change your spouse." Then, said his younger brother William: "Having attended to the underclothes, bathrooms and matrimonial irregularities of his fellow citizens, he began to consider their salvation." C.B. rediscovered the Bible...
...handling of premium coupons for manufacturers, who issue more than a billion a year with soap, cereals and other grocery items. The bank will tot them up, provide refunds from the firms...
...plane crash polished off the lamister. Mary Noble, that long-suffering Backstage Wife, realized at last that her husband was really in love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President...
...glass, when she goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling comic horror. It may not be literature...
...cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never mentioned the season...