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...President-elect Eisenhower emblazoned on the covers of our national magazines, can one discern a single tinge of red, or hear the scrape of a single subversive note? Most certainly not, John Foster Dulles, having heroically dared the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe his background, has come through cleaner than a hound's tooth. Two minor clerks in General Eisenhower's office, presumably not so prudent as Mr. Dulles, have been consigned to outer darkness for their past indiscretions. And the music of Aaron Copland, a man who is said to have "a long and questionable record of questionable...
Hotch is believed to have left Cambridge for Portland Wednesday afternoon after refusing to tell his family why he was going. He took a room in the Hotel Falmouth and proceeded to remove all identification marks from his luggage and clothing. He overlooked only a cleaner's tag inside a suit coat which proved the immediate means of identification...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...
...Digest, which periodically runs "Consumer Reports" telling its readers about promising new products, had run across Jerclaydon's Glamorene, a new kind of rug cleaner. Before it recommended the product, the Digest, as it does with all new products, had it tested by Stamford's (Conn.) York Research Corp. Wallace gave Jerclaydon the results: ". . . after more than a thousand tests on over 100 rug-cleaning products the laboratory reported: 'Best rug-cleaning compound for home use we have found. Best on-location cleaner for institutional use.'" Adding that the Digest was preparing a three-page article...
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...