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...shop where a woman employee can have her hair shampooed free-half with a P. & G. product, the other half with a competing shampoo. The company keeps a staff of bakers busy developing new recipes for Crisco and its bakery-trade shortenings (latest treat: a chocolate-coated ice-cream cone), is now working with soybean oil in the hope of cashing in on the boom in "frozen custard" and other ice-cream substitutes...
...before," she says severely a bit later in Peck's apartment, "even with my dress on," and her trusting innocence becomes a sure guarantee of safety. Audrey Hepburn's princess seems never to forget her exalted station, even when she is gulping an ice cream cone, getting her hair cut or whamming a cop over the head with a guitar in a nightclub dustup. Yet to scenes where she is playing the princess proper, she brings a wistfulness that seems completely unposed. She can be infinitely appealing with her hair snarled and her dress dripping...
Robot Salesmen. At the National Automatic Merchandising Association convention in Chicago, manufacturers showed the latest vending machines, which will dispense anything from an ice cream cone to a shot of shaving cream. In addition to machines that serve hot or cold sandwiches and chocolate sundaes, make change and give massages, there was an automatic vendor, suitable for race tracks and ballparks, that is installed under a seat and delivers a seat cushion in return...
...where are the curly-fused cannon crackers of yesteryear-so thick, so roundly red, so pregnant with earsplitting, tooth-jarring noise? Where are the backyard skyrockets, with their colored, cone-topped heads and their delicate pinewood sticks? Where are the politicians who spoke, jowls aquiver and veins distended, on the glorious day amid the pleasantly acrid smell of burnt powder? Where are the red, white and blue floats built on flat bed-trucks? Where is the George M. Cohan roll for the player piano and the rock salt for the ice-cream freezer on the back porch...
...might not eventually outstrip women and children sales. Other new uses: denim umbrel las, knitting bags, glass cases to match costumes, fancy pants (an oriental-type knee-length woman's garment for lounge wear), men's tattersall vests, women's ensembles of belts, purses and shoes. Cone Mills has 95 different shades and patterns of denim in the fall line it recently showed to buyers. Reeves, Avondale, Simatex and other mills are furiously expanding their production to try to narrow Cone's and Erwin's lead...