Radio: The New Suds

Sudsy daytime serials are easy targets for radio's detractors. But soap operas go on & on because sponsors find them profitable. Last week, an outlandish new jumble of fact & fancy called Wendy Warren and the News (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 12 noon, E.D.T.) tried desperately to vary the formula.

The new twist: CBS Reporter Douglas Edwards leads off with a three-minute summary of the day's headlines. A girl reporter named "Wendy Warren" (Actress Florence Freeman) follows him, shrills out 45 seconds of "women's news," promptly plunges into her tortured fictional love life. By the...

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