Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once Upon a Mattress (book by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller; music by Mary Rodgers; dances by Joe Layton) is a cocktail-hour version of the children's-hour fairy story, The Princess on the Pea. The princess, as every pre-TV schoolchild recalls, is a lady so sensitive that she can feel a pea through a great thickness of mattresses, thereby passes the test of royalty and may marry the prince. Mattress' bookmakers offer odds that there was more to this yam than met the eye of Hans Christian Andersen. Apart from the boob-catching title...
Died. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, president of the Fuller Brush Co., son of the founder (who is now chairman of the board); in an auto accident that also killed his wife; near Hawthorne, Nevada. At 30, Fuller took command of the company's 108 branches and 6,500 dealers, introduced the Fuller Brush Woman to sell soaps and cosmetics...
...next room Picasso takes up approximately where Cezanne left off. His Small Composition and a drawing, Head with Pipe, are comparatively early and in many ways as pure as the Cezannes. The two still-lifes of the twenties, controlled but more exuberant and a fuller statement of the personality, are another story...
...Yardling rally that put the visitors ahead to stay. Successive hits by Marc Kolden and Bob Sellig, an infield error, a walk, and two line singles by Dave Morse and Phil Bernstein scored six tallies. Then, after complaining long and loud about a called ball, Jumbo pitcher Bob Fuller was ejected by umpire Fred Lawrence...
Righthander Joe Loeb followed Fuller and finished the game, scattering eight hits, including a long homer by Captain Morse...