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Wintering at a rented $175,000 California "cottage," Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 65, who preferred aspirin-sized pillboxes long before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...
...morning, a Red reporter had visited all the state trade stores with out finding a single fountain pen. He then watched while Mrs. Toan and Mrs. Hoa sold dozens of fountain pens in less than an hour, in addition to razor blades, moth balls, nylon stockings, shoelaces, buttons and aspirin tablets-all in short supply at the state stores...
...ability to sell heavily in drugstores adds weight to an aspirin manufacturer's reputation, but not to a writer's. Probably for this reason, Erskine Caldwell seldom makes the lists of Meaningful Authors. Some 47 million Caldwell reprints (Certain Women, Claudelle Inglish) have been sold, most of them a salty but honestly written sort of gallus humor. But their covers-and occasionally, some of their contents-are aimed at the skin trade. Consequently, the author is too often ignored by readers who have passed the stage of handing thumb-indexed copies of God's Little Acre around...
...chain of yellow amber beads (which he uses to allay his craving for cigars), Skouras attributed his company's losses to "bad breaks," among them Elizabeth Taylor's illness, which halted the filming of Cleopatra. Moaned one investor: "We needed surgery, and we've gotten an aspirin...
...fact, U.S. and British post-mortems showed Wodehouse to have been unwise rather than unpatriotic. His political savvy, say friends, could comfortably be compressed in an aspirin bottle. The script of the controversial broadcasts, finally published in London's monthly Encounter in 1954, smacked more of Lower Smattering-on-the-Wissel than upper Silesia (where Wodehouse spent some time in a prison that had once been an insane asylum). Plainly, Wodehouse said nothing to support the Allied picture of the Nazis as brutes and sadists. During his stay in jail, Wodehouse reported, he had written a novel, read...