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...Water & Lemon. At a ranch outside Phoenix last week, Elizabeth Arden's carriage-trade customers were getting a full course of beauty treatments, including slimming, for $500 a week. At Kiowa Lodge, southeast of Los Angeles, an ex-football player (Michigan State) named Sam Dictor was offering a reducing course for the jitney trade at $80 a week. The program began with a glass of hot water and lemon juice served in bed. Then the inmates jumped into sweat suits emblazoned "Kiowa," and began a rugged, day-long routine of calisthenics, swimming, games and "passive exercise" with reducing gadgets...
...this point, Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, Governor of the Gold Coast and a wise old Africa hand, took the gamble of his career. The governor had put Nkrumah in jail; now he let him out and appointed him Leader of Government Business, with most of the powers of a Prime Minister. Whitehall approved, but the Director of Gold Coast Prisons emphatically did not. "I am not prepared to take orders from one of my former inmates," he snapped, and resigned in a huff...
...Arden-Clarke's gamble seems to be paying off. Prison life sobered Nkrumah, who was never a glutton for punishment; responsibility awed his adolescent party. Nkrumah could not resist wearing a Nehru-style cap with the letters P.G. (for Prison Graduate) embroidered on the side, but he pumped the governor's hand and agreed that since the constitution has made him the virtual boss of the Gold Coast, he might as well give it a trial. "I am a friend of Britain," he piously announced in his first big speech. "I desire for the Gold Coast the status...
...Government. At first, the black man's habit of deferring to the white impeded business: instead of making up their own minds, the black ministers looked to the governor for decisions. But Arden-Clarke soon put a stop to that. "That's for you chaps to decide," he told Nkrumah. "After all, you are the government...
...ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect on the skin. She altered her titles to conform, but feared the FTC less than her archrival Elizabeth Arden, who paid $50,000 a year to hire away Rubinstein's general manaager. Rubinstein got revenge by hiring Arden's ex-husband to take his place...