Radio: Against the Claptrap

It was almost as if True Confessions had been caught running installments of a Willa Cather novel: Since daytime radio serials, supposedly adored by "the U.S. housewife," are by common consent the most fatuous of dramas, the discovery of a soap opera that dared to be literate made radio columnists pop-eared.

Against the Storm is written by Sandra Michael for Procter & Gamble, goes out over NBC's Red network from 3 to 3:15 p.m. E.S.T. Mondays through Fridays. Unpublicized for two years, it began to get astonished reviews last month. Fortnight ago Variety, which...

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