Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down its once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next move: an appeal to the full bench of Maine's Supreme Court...
This month the entire theatre is being redone. The inroad of termites on the old seats in the second balcony is being checked, and the ornate walls are going to be repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic...
...other. Crimson Crimson candidates push into backstage dressing rooms for exclusive interviews. Reverent Yale men drop in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House. At the Old Howard the scum and the cream of society finds a common denominator. And, quite different from Boston's more pretentious musical revues, dress is informal even on opening nights at the friendly little theatre off Scollay Square...
...Southerners like Donald Comer, head of Birmingham's big Avondale Mills (TIME, Feb. 10), see one way the South may permanently benefit even from a mere ice-cream-and-powder-mill boom. Most of the camp construction work is done by farmers, for big wages. Comer hopes they will use the money to buy the farms on which they have been tenants heretofore, and to improve buildings and equipment. This would give the South a new standard of farm income, a shift from cotton and tobacco to food crops, a permanently increased purchasing power. The South also is getting...
There are a few simple pleasures that make one's life livable no matter how black the times, such as cigarettes, an occasional movie, a luscious chocolate milk with ice cream in any House but Adams, a bedtime story over the Crimson Network by A Member of the History Department. Among these harmless and ever-so-precious diversion might also be numbered leafing through the latest issue of Esquire, with its luxurious layout, its smooth ads and smoother women-especially since the Petty girl has returned. But simultaneously with the return of this lovely creature came a decree...