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Like any husband home from work, Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. chatted with the wife, drank a bourbon and water and downed a leisurely dinner (chicken, peas and ginger cake). Then he drove to a Washington TV studio to report to the nation, at President Eisenhower's request, on "The Fight Against Communism." Confidently, Brownell spelled out the problem of Communist infiltration and what is being done to combat...
...Dusen lives the fragmented and busy life of a corporation president, multiple board member, personal counselor and theologian. His day begins in his sunny, comfortable, ten-room apartment at 7:15 with a hot (then cold) shower, and ends there around midnight with a bedtime glass of ginger ale and milk. The period between is a hectic but orderly scramble of board meetings (he is a trustee of ten educational institutions, plus the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board), lectures, student interviews and faculty meetings; day's end leaves his two secretaries with a thorough sense of having...
...first time in U.S. history, a new movie had its premiere on television last week. The film, Paramount's Forever Female, starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden, was not very good. But the TV audience was not very large either; it consisted only of those who could crowd around some 70 specially prepared TV sets in Palm Springs, Calif., a far-flung (90 miles away) suburb of Hollywood. What brought the film colony's biggest names on the run was the fact that the Palm Springs experiment was the official inauguration of Telemeter, a coin-box subscription...
...real break. The town planners of Crawley New Town, a vast new urban development project 30 miles south of London, decided that henceforth all new pubs built in the district must include a Kiddie Bar, where the little 'uns can find their own solace in ice cream, ginger beer or orange squash...
...most sensational growth has been in low-calorie soft drinks; sales rose from zero to 5,000,000 cases in one year. Pioneer in the field was Kirsch's Beverages, Inc. of Brooklyn, which started producing No-Cal ginger ale last year, aiming at an annual market of 100,000 cases; instead, Kirsch's sold half a million, added four other flavors, and this year expects No-Cal sales to top 2,500,000 cases. More than 50 companies are now in the field...