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...Breast, and Beyond," Class and Caste in the Sales-room," "Selling Symbols to Upward Strivers," and "The Packaged Soul" indicate the nature of his subject matter. His description of the techniques used to sell Mrs. Middle Majority, "the darling of the advertiser," and those used to revive the cigarette holder, instant coffee, tea, margarine, and prune industries are intensely interesting...
...real nature of the Communist beast is obviously still news to ex-Party Member Fast. The rank and file, he continues to insist, were "the bravest and the best." The betrayers of the socialist dreams were the leaders, who rule by terror and, above all, by "magic." The onetime holder (1953) of the Stalin Peace Prize tries to explain and expose that evil Red magic; he sees Big Brother's ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor...
...sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English, chain-smokes Kool cigarettes in a long, gold holder...
...Prince Philip in TIME, one is struck by the many analogies between the job of consort to a reigning Queen and the vice-presidency of the U.S. "More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it." I am sure you will agree that Americans have seen our last two Vice Presidents make something of their office, in an office similarly flexible to individual expression...
Earlier, freshman Jed Fitzgerald had thoroughly trounced Yale's heralded Tom Carroll, schoolboy 880 record-holder. He opened up a commanding 100-yard lead midway through the race and coasted to win by the same margin...