Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. F. W. Fitch, 81, shampoo millionaire ("Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo," "Fitch's Ideal Hair Tonic"); in Des Moines. Born into a poor Iowa family, he started work at eight as a farmhand, became a barber and concocted a tonic that temporarily removed dandruff. When he found many willing buyers, he stopped barbering, moved his equipment from his house to a plant, started on a business which cleaned up $11 million a year...
Sandrino Verges! was on the lookout for the ideal woman. For an angel-faced Italian youngster of 16, his tastes were rather special. "First she resists, and then she lets you gradually kill her, bit by bit . . . I want the feeling of having something that defends itself and that you slowly crush and crush and crush until the life's crushed out of it." In the next room to his, sharing the same grubby apartment house, Sandrino finds someone to his sadistic little heart's desire...
...Blyth plays the slutty princess of Samarkand with a dead pan and what sounds very much like a runny nose. David Farrar is an ideal match for her as he slogs stupidly through the role of Sir Guy of Devon, a Crusader even more preposterous than the Crusades themselves. Genghis Khan, one of the great leaders and tacticians of history, is portrayed as a mean, irritable, slow-witted braggart who doesn't talk too good...
...year of graduate work at the University of North Carolina and then returned to Harvard to work in Dean Hanford's office. I came here because I thought I would get more gratification out of working with students of college age. And I am tremendously interested in the ideal of this institution--to give the best man possible the best education possible regardless of his financial background." This year von Stade is also Acting Master of Kirkland House where he enjoys being with students on a more informal basis than in his office in University Hall...
...longtime newsman (26 years, nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...