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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bottles & Bonuses. Pepsi has cut costs (minor item: its annual art awards have been abandoned), and the company has a new eight-ounce bottle to sell for 5? at race tracks and ball parks. For home consumption, there is still the old twelve-ounce bottle (new price: 6?). Pepsi also has a new syrup pump for drugstores; at the first plunge, it plays the Pepsi jingle. To cash in on these new ideas, Mack has brought Coca-Cola Vice President Al Steele into the company as sales boss...
...part of the Buildings and Grounds department most mysterious to the average Harvard man is probably the carpentry division. When a broken chair or table mysteriously disappears, to be seen again only as an item on a term bill, it may very well have been carted to the extensive wood-working shops below Dunster House on Memorial Drive. Also in this building are a tinsmith's shop, a key shop, a metal-working shop, and an upholstery shop. A staff of roofers (now almost exclusively employed waterproofing Widener), electricians, and plumbers complete the repair crew of Buildings and Grounds...
Wintergreen for President" is the featured item in the Harvard band's second album, "Half Time," which goes on sale in the House dining halls and at the Union today...
...knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry. Low's deck of cards was virtually snatched from him by a waiter in a Budapest cafe, and the current demand for them throughout the Balkans...
...most entertaining item in Signature is a story called "A Pinch in Time." An American riding in a Swiss railway carriage engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...