When Guiding Light creator Irna Phillips launched As the World Turns in 1956, her own guiding light was a credo she’d written about life and death : “As the world turns, we know the bleakness of winter, the promise of spring, the fullness of summer and the harvest of autumn — the cy

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The final episode had romantic reconciliations and emotional goodbyes

That final episode was a wistful one, according to contemporaneous recaps . As a retiring Dr. Bob Hughes ( Don Hastings ) packs up his office at Oakdale Memorial Hospital, and in narration, he reflects on the cy

And those highs and lows continue. Bob’s son Chris Hughes ( Daniel Cosgrove ), recuperating from his heart transplant, proposes to Katie Peretti (Terri Conn), and she accepts. T

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