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...Taurum forces soon include as engaging a set of oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pay Dirt | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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