Word: lotion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lady of Larkspur Lotion is a better example of Williams and receives a more polished performance. Illustrating the author's favorite theme of the decadent southern belle, the sketch tempers its seediness with fine touches of whimsy. Elinor Fuchs, as Mrs. Hardwick-Moore, plays an earlier outline of Streetcar's Blanche Dubois, handling both her southern accent and temperament without extravagance. Equally adept is Bob Golden, as The Writer. Patricia Leatham is perhaps too intense for a landlady, yet her performance does not mar the best production on the Workshop's program...
...mention of race is taboo. One hair-lotion manufacturer wanted to begin a commercial: "Attention Negro women!" but was promptly turned down. The station manager knew any such blatant approach would alienate listeners...
...Methodist Layman Everett Mills Hosman, who has been training church ushers for about ten years, told an interdenominational meeting of church ushers in Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait...
GILLETTE'S TONI division, which started the home-permanent fad, is expanding into cosmetics. First product will be a smear-proof lipstick called "Viv," which Toni will launch with a $5,000,000 ad campaign. Other products to follow: cleansing cream and hand lotion...
Immaculately clad, garlanded with some 20 campaign decorations, scented with shaving lotion, wearing a bright red cap and shadowed by a Moroccan orderly carrying riding crop and carbine, he seemed an improbable Cadet de Gascogne to be in Dienbienphu in command of a battle so crucial to the fate of so much and so many. But those who knew him had few misgivings. "Dienbienphu will be all right unless De Castries gets himself killed," said one last week. "He will get himself killed," added another, "or he'll come back a general...