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Liquor trade journals hailed Distillers Corp.-Seagrams as a trail blazer for its ads claiming that "Clear Heads Call for Calvert Taste." Its Calvert subsidiary ran the ads despite the Government's disapproval-based on the ad's implicit promise of freedom from hangover. But it later changed the wording to "Clear Heads Agree: Calvert Tastes Better" after a threat of formal charges. While Seagrams nervously denies that it is trying to make a test case for the industry, Vice President
Before long a small man in a blue blazer surrounded by a stage crew in smocks led us to an elevator. There was an exchange of words between men in blue blazers. "They should have been here at one o'clock. . .but I thought it was eight." We crowded in the elevator like cattle waiting for our fate as the argument came to an end. "Well we'll have to go without the rehearsal. Have them put on their costumes...
Strong police protection, however, is ineffective without a calm atmosphere, and in this respect the NAACP has not been exactly lily-white. For days before Miss Lucy's enrollment, sensational statements played her up as an heroic trail-blazer for The Cause of Integration. Undoubtedly, Miss Lucy is blazing a trail across the Cotton Belt; but unless the NAACP sought also to make her a martyr, it is hard to understand why that organization's publicity should lead so directly to the very tension that should be avoided. An occasional "no comment" might, in the long run, be more effective...
After two years and two score amateur fights, Patterson found himself at Helsinki, Finland, wearing the blue blazer of the U.S. Olympic team. Floyd won the null championship with impressive ease. "He was fully as sensational when he mounted a dais to receive the victory award-he put one hand on his stomach, the other against his back, and gave the crowd a deep, dancing-school...
...trouble with the work of Terence Rattigan, one of Britain's leading playwrights since 1936, is that he frequently says what he thinks is clever instead of saying what he means. The method works fairly well in blazer farce and weekend melodrama, but when it comes to hearing the human heartbeat of a situation, Rattigan might as well be hunting uranium with an ear trumpet. Moreover, in The Deep Blue Sea, the leading lady does little to help. The part is scored, though crudely, for the full cello notes of womanly anguish; Vivien plays it in the thin pizzicato...