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...RICHARD C. COTTON c/o Postmaster San Francisco
Libby, McNeill & Libby was having trouble selling baked beans until it changed the label to a rich, dark color, emblematic of the molasses-smothered beans inside, has since redesigned nearly all its 250 labels. One manufacturer put out cotton-tipped swabs in three colors: white, pink and chartreuse. White and pink were fine; chartreuse flopped because it reminded women of baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner...
...discussed the case with Goldfine's good friends, Maine's Senator Frederick Payne and New Hampshire's Norris Cotton? "I think there was some discussion about that at one time, but so far as I am concerned, it was a casual discussion...
...third of Syria's wool exports (ten times last year's amount) and more than half of the cotton crop will go this year to the Soviet bloc. Although Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash fled to Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...only on leather cushions, slept on a leather mattress, and had the air of his Paris mansion filtered through silk screens and fine sprays of water. He reduced his handshake, proffering only the index and middle fingers. For reasons known only to the great mystery man, he preferred cotton to toilet paper. He slept exactly six hours per night, and declared that he permitted himself no dreams. He once spoke of Freud as a great talent gone to waste...