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...creation : Man-Tan, a colorless lotion costing $3 for a four-ounce bottle that by means of a chemical reaction on skin changes the color to a yellow or a reddish brown, withstands repeated washing. Andre worked for years on a Man-Tan formula, writing herb gardens all over the world for ideas. He claims he finally found the answer in a 1920s medical journal describing experiments with dihydroxyacetone, a chemical that doctors once used in the treatment of diabetes. The article noted that patients who swallowed dihydroxyacetone developed stained teeth. So Andre tried the chemical...
After a month of occasional running in the U.S., Australia's shaggy-maned Herb Elliott, 22, world's fastest miler (3:54.5), flew back Down Under and got his first haircut since he had left. It cost him 56? for a "back and sides" job in a Syd ney barbershop. Explained economy-minded Elliott: "Why pay $2 in the States for a five-bob haircut...
...mile was billed as the biggest track event of the season, a duel at Modesto, Calif, between Australia's Herb Elliott, the best in the world, and lanky Dyrol Burleson, the best in the U.S. But five minutes before starting time Elliott withdrew because of a strained knee tendon, and suddenly Burleson was left with no one to whip but a bunch of also-rans, including a distance runner named Jim Beatty, 25, who felt so out of place in the event that he frankly said: "I'm no miler...
Accent on Comedy (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). That rare TV hour - a live comedy show. Working for the laughs: Herb Shriner, Dorothy Loudon, Smith & Dale...
...delicate, wide-leafed tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) became known as "the divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds...