A pioneering soap opera, Ma Perkins was heard on daytime radio for close to 30 years. For most of that time it was sponsored by Procter & Gamble's Oxydol soap flakes. The 15 minute show began in 1933 and did not leave the air until 1960....

Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) was a radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks. Oxydol dropped its sponsorship...

Maggie Koerth-Baker, Contributing Editor The greening of an architecture firm It's been more than 70 years since Larry Perkins and Philip Will founded Perkins & Will in Chicago. The ampersand in the logo has been replaced by a plus sign, but...

With the 106th Congress just around the corner and our Perkins reauthorization finally complete, we have a great opportunity to look beyond the Perkins Act and assess what we need to achieve in other pieces of federal legislation. The elections in November...

Tab Hunter’s career as a star was actually quite short—six or seven years, from about 1953 to 1960, when it became obvious that he’d been replaced by other fresh-faced, short-term juveniles like Troy Donahue and Richard Beymer. But Tab Hunter Confidential isn’t a short memoir:...

Tab Hunter’s career as a star was actually quite short—six or seven years, from about 1953 to 1960, when it became obvious that he’d been replaced by other fresh-faced, short-term juveniles like Troy Donahue and Richard Beymer. But Tab Hunter Confidential isn’t a short memoir:...