A newspaper article from late 1971 included a section on SS happenings around that time.
...Just then, some waves start crashing in on a Homer Winslow shoreline and "The Secret Storm" comes on. By now I am reeling, but will hang in there. This one is also a gem. Dr. Ian Northcoat, who has a cool beard, is talking with his wife (pardon me, second wife) Valerie, who is Amy Britton's step-mother. They are talking about Susan Carver, Amy's sister, who is married to Frank Carver, managing editor of the Woodbridge paper (yeah). Susan has big troubles, as they say in the city.
She was married to a creep named Allan, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for long enough to get himself declared dead by the state department. Surprise, he came home, right after Susan married Frank. Now he's using Kitty Styles, a floozy blonde babe going to fat, to try and get his wife back. Poor Kitty thinks Allan likes her. These people are all on committees at the Woodbridge Country Club, They hate each other. This is the soapy that gained fame around last Christmas time by bumping off two of its leads, Jill Clayborne and her husband Hugh, a rich publisher. Apparently the plot got too thick even for the soap opera writers and some driftwood had to be cut. The fatal plane crash even shocked my wife. The housewives were really mad for about two weeks. Jill was a good friend of Amy and Sue. She probably didn't want to leave because a few weeks later she did a bit scene on Edge of Night and then took over the role of Leslie Norris on Guiding Light (remember?), The soap opera family charts have more lines than the Mafia's.
Anyway, Allan is trying to make Frank think Susan still has the hots for him. Kitty keeps running around in public yelling "Get your wife to keep her hands off my Allan" and stuff like that. This naturally upsets Frank. So he does what any good newspaperman would do. He sneaks around trying to find out what's up.
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Paul Raven ·
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