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Rise & Fall. Glamorene's makers, three brothers named Sheldon, Clayton and Jerold Hulsh, heeded the warning. They had been happy to sell about $40,000 worth monthly of their cleaner-a compound of cellulose fiber (resembling sawdust) and various cleaning agents which can be rubbed into a rug, then brushed out bringing the dirt with it. After they got the word from Wallace, they hired three fieldmen and in a whirlwind, 21-day tour, set up a nationwide network of salesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Digest Cleans a Rug | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Soon after the Digest story came out in February, President Clayton Hulsh found that "we couldn't keep up with the orders." March and April sales skyrocketed to $1,000,000 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Digest Cleans a Rug | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

Shortly before he left New York for Springfield and a weekend of work on his Labor Day speech, it became clear that Stevenson's appeal to the Negro "specialinterest" group had paid off. Said Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who had threatened to lead a Negro "boycott" of Stevenson and Sparkman: "We are just going all out for him now. The platform has been spelled out in his speeches of last night. All doubts about him have been removed from my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smart Quarterback | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Treasure Chest. In Yonkers, N.Y., when police asked him where he had hidden the jewelry he stole, Clayton Cuff, 20, was speechless, gasped for breath, coughed up a $425 diamond ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Only once in Republican history has the party organization's nominee for temporary chairman been defeated by a nominee from the floor. That was in 1884, when foes of James G. Blaine put John R. Lynch of Mississippi in the chair instead of Blaine's man, Powell Clayton of Arkansas. The man who led the battle for Lynch: Massachusetts' goateed Henry Cabot Lodge, then 34 years old, grandfather of Ike's campaign manager. The night before the convention, Lodge and young (25) Theodore Roosevelt scurried around Chicago hotels convincing delegates. Next day they climbed on chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arrangements Were Made | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

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