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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Roosevelt's little-publicized wife, Anne, a honey-blonde, turned up in her evening clothes in a vanishing-cream ad, testifying: "Before I go out-always a 1-Minute Mask . . . my skin looks finer-textured-it looks clearer. And it feels wonderful! Smoother all over...
...Orleans businessmen bought a four-column ad in the New York Times to assure "worried friends" that, despite the hurricane (TIME, Sept. 29), their town was still on the map. To be sure, there were "some windows broken," but "reports of storm-damage were, fortunately, vastly overestimated." Said the come-hither caption on one of the ad's four post-storm pictures: "All the historic landmarks-the lacy balconies and secluded patios-still are here to delight our visitors...
Sponsored by members, including Calvin Goodman '50 and Alice Dash, Radcliffe '51, of an ad hoc committee that worked with AVC this summer on the Wallace forum, the reception will be informal. Tea and entertainment will be provided, and all interested individuals are welcome, Goodman said...
...some hearty laughs. When a single boo rang out amid the cheers with which he was greeted before his speech in Los Angeles' Elks Temple, he ad-libbed: "Fellow Republicans and a Democrat, I hope!" When a questioner asked him when the income-tax law was going to be simplified, he said: "You know the income tax law is really very simple for most people. You just fill out a form, turn it over to check what your income is and that's the end of it. ..." A gale of laughter halted him, startled him, and then obviously...
...first reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look...