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...quips for a boffo hour at a recent banquet of the Women's National Press Club. Humphrey's best line: "Barry's so handsome that I understand he's been offered a movie contract-with 18th Century-Fox." In turn, Goldwater compared Humphrey's druggist background with the academic luster of the new Cabinet appointments: "I can't see how the Denver College of Pharmacy jibes with Harvard...
Another problem turned up when a Cleveland pharmacist found one of the cards too risque. "You're the best friend a fella ever had," announced the front. "But I'm a girl," it concluded. The druggist was sufficiently struck by the other cards to order the line...
...food supplement Metrecal (TIME, Oct. 3) and its sister brands. Across the nation last week, drugstores and supermarkets were clamoring for fresh carload deliveries to accommodate the growing hordes of Schmoo-shaped addicts who were insisting on guzzling their way to the vanishing point. Cried a happy druggist: "It's the bestselling thing since the Hula Hoop!" Campaigner Jack Kennedy was right, sighed an overweight Republican, when he said that 17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night-"most of them are on Metrecal...
...Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when he wants to invoke God he swears "in the name of all that is being ridiculed...
William Selby, 77, an odd-jobs man, was evicted from his house. His white grocer and druggist cut off his credit. Two young couples-the John Jamersons and the William Thorns-were also ordered out of their houses; months later, the houses are still vacant. Jobie Mosby, 38, lost his $4-a-day job as a tractor driver. His wife, Fannie Mae, 29, a $2.50-a-day ironing woman, was fired. Neither has found jobs since-and they have eleven children to support. John McFerren, 35, could buy neither groceries nor gasoline for his small country store and filling station...