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With the British, especially, McCarthyism is an obsession-& delightful, self-flattering obsession that salves the bruised British ego with the balm of moral supertority to the upstart Americans. The more McCarthyism can be exaggerated in its evil or its power, the more it fascinates the British...
Plastic Painkiller. Larson Laboratories of Erie, Pa. put on sale a spray-on plastic to make easier the removal of adhesive bandages. Squirted on the skin before tape is applied, the Adhesive Balm Spray (containing Monsanto's Santicizer No. 8) forms an antiseptic, stainless plastic film, later permits dressings to be peeled off with almost no pain to the patient...
...bravos were balm to Beverly, who remembers her advertising days with horror: "We used to sit around conference rooms for hours on end, waiting for a client to show up. And then we all had to bow down like he was God. I used to wear low-heeled shoes so I wouldn't be taller than the men." All that changed when Beverly took up painting and went to live in Paris. She studied with Painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris, then moved down to the Riviera, where she rented Pablo Picasso...
...support from us-and seldom more soothed than by Father Bruckberger's evaluation of our being and spirit. This odd little balancing effect within the covers of one magazine gave it (the magazine) almost the quality of a work of art. So did it razzle and subsequently spread balm on the emotions...
...telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...