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Childhood: Dishpan Hands. Dick Nixon hardly seems like an old man, but he is old for his years. He was born in Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles, where his parents had a lemon grove. They wished it had been oranges-which were the promissory golden fruit that had helped attract Dick's maternal grandfather, Quaker Franklin Milhous, to California from his home in Butlerville, Ind. In 1897 he had loaded lumber, doors, windows, cows and horses on a freight car and set out for the promised land. At a Quaker church party, his daughter Hannah met Francis Anthony Nixon...
Bill Mauldin's Army dates from 1939, from the lean waiting days of leggings, dishpan helmets, the first jeeps, and upended logs dignified by the sign "howitzer" tacked to their wooden trails. Mauldin's book takes that army through its adolescence in training and its maturity under fire. His cartoons tell a lot about what made that army grow, and even more about how Mauldin grew with...
Cinemactress Susan Hayward said she had posed for her last kitchen publicity picture: "Hollywood is not full of stars with dishpan hands. That's fiddle-faddle. We're exciting and half screwball. All of us are flamboyant hams...
...store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this is the day they give babies away, with a half a pound of tea." To spread the store's name, a team of eight dapple grey horses drew...
Delegates from 13 countries compiled an impressive list of ills to which the conscientious housewife is heir. The outstanding ones: dermatitis ("dishpan hands" from allergy to cleansing agents), neuritis, neuroses, varicose veins, low back pain, fallen womb, peptic ulcers, inflamed muscles, vitamin deficiencies, arthritis, flat feet...