Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kiddies form a vast, commercial audience, almost as important to U.S. business as their soap-opera-loving mothers; each has become a sort of quivering vacuum tube, and the man who can tune in on exactly the right wave length automatically assumes the same power over the tot that Edgar Bergen holds over Charlie McCarthy. Given just the right nudge, Junior, even at distances up to 3,000 miles, will open his mouth and say, "Mamma...
...only given himself a whale of a part, but has depicted himself as one hell of a guy. The only snag is that he comes through as almost nothing of a writer. Nor is his technique of winking one eye while wiping a tear from the other, of crossing soap-opera passion with backstage pranks, more than rarely a help. He has merely opened Pandora's box in Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...
...Clem McCarthy. Soon after they got off, rugged ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, who lost a leg in World War I, slipped ahead. By midevening, he was out front by 41,000 votes. By breakfast time next morning, young (39) Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams, heir to a soap fortune and undeviating friend of organized labor, was only 9,000 behind and coming up fast...
Crimson booters will travel downstream this afternoon to play an improved M.I.T. team behind the soap factory...