Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soapmaker Neil McElroy's sudsy salary apparently left a dash of P. & G.'s product in your eye when it came to citing the firm's net sales in '56 at such a paltry low-Tide million plus figure. I think it should...
...subject's cooperation. Thus, ambitious opinion shapers of the future might possibly sell their political candidate-or breakfast food-by the supersoft-sell method of subconscious sight, flashing their slogans into living rooms under cover of a televised horse opera. Chuckles one TV executive with a conscious eye on the future: "It smacks of brainwashing, but of course it would be tempting...
...they could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
Fire Down Below. Lust, betrayal and revenge in the Caribbean - all slanted by Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw's eye for irony; with Robert Mitchum. Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
Helen Detweiler commits suicide, possibly for lack of some assurance, which Winner could have given her, that her brother would escape prison. As Lawyer Winner digs up her will from the office vault, his eye falls on some of Noah's papers. Tuttle, the rock of probity, turns out to be an embezzler who has been juggling his accounts for years. Confiding his numbing discovery to Julius Penrose, Arthur Winner is jolted yet again-Penrose has known and kept silent not only about Tuttle's secret, but about Winner's as well. Faced with the ineluctable ironies...