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...late advertising tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: COLLECTOR'S PRIZE | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...Columbus, Ohio, after police, alerted by suspicious merchants, followed Catherine Clegg, 34, found in her car and in a trick skirt, a chicken, two pounds of butter, a small ham, oranges, a package of chopped beef, a pound of perch, a pound of bacon, a steak, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of milk of magnesia, two kinds of toilet soap, two bottles of headache tablets, a couple of combs, a bottle of shampoo and two kinds of hair bleach-almost none of which had been paid for-she explained: "I didn't pay for the bleach because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...than 200 production outfits in the U.S. now compete for the $80 million annual gross of the industrial movie business. The movies vary from live-action shorts to animated cartoons, e.g., Walt Disney's How to Catch a Cold, which gives scientific advice on cold prevention (courtesy of Kleenex Tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Painless Plug | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...tearmarks of a winner. Painfully, she told how her two oldest boys were planning to leave school because they were ashamed of their clothes, and how the youngest had to get up at 3:30 a.m. to peddle his papers. Hovering near by with a handy Kleenex, Bailey cackled cheerfully into the TV camera. Her wish was modest enough: clothes for the boys. It was no contest. With a burst of applause, the studio audience of 900 sister sobbers one day last week named Phyllis Adams "Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Troubles & Bubbles | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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