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...SAVINGS STAMPS will be offered for soap-product coupons by B. T. Babbitt, Inc. (Bab-O, Glim, Red Devil Lye). Housewives will receive coupons in 5?, 10? and 15? denominations attached to products, must mail them in exchange for 25? savings stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...private labels become that some national-brand makers turn out both, in the hope of lowering overall production costs and gaining a more favorable reception for the manufacturer's name-brand products. In many cases the quality is exactly the same, but the price is lower. B. T. Babbitt, cleaning-products maker, markets its Glim liquid detergent to some distributors to retail for 69? per 22-oz. bottle. It also supplies them with the identical product under the Sparkle label to retail for 49?. But in many a private brand, the lower price reflects not only the dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Grocer's Profits v. New Consumer Foods | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head of George Babbitt, who answers: "Oh, I-yes. That must be nice to try that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...ranging from an eleven-line snapshot of Mrs. Bridge finding her small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything in Babbitt. There are sharply accurate glimpses of a far-from-adult grownup trying to cope with adolescents, of a dark, feminine hatred toward the machine. There is, above all, the nameless fear that somehow life itself is a mysterious machine that is not running as well as it should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lonely Mom | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...tempted, but resisted: "After wading along with a kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better go back where you belong and read Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lolita Case | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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