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Scratch One. In Philadelphia, after Detective Edward Pushkarwicz got poison ivy investigating a cash and stamp theft from a small post office, he arrested a suspect at home on finding a bottle of poison ivy lotion in the bedroom...
...Devotion Lotion. In Cincinnati, William Stokes, 57, Bishop of the Spiritual Church of God, explained to police that the blackjack" he was carrying was for "protection of myself and my congregation," and the bottle of gin, for "sacrificial purposes...
...bring out the author's complete works at ten-month intervals. Written by Colette when she was 22 and published in 1900, Claudine at School was an instant and scandalous success. It went through innumerable editions and became so much a byword that manufacturers flooded Paris with a Lotion Claudine, a Chapeau Claudine, a Glace-Claudine and a Parfum de Claudine. Though lacking some of the rueful insight of Colette's later novels, the book remains a fresh and impressive piece of work, providing wit. penetrating observation, and a tolerable road map to the devious paths...
...father had preached: he worked over each horse as carefully as if it were the only one in his string. He went on claiming second-rate nags and turning them into winners with such consistent success that other trainers joked that he must be using some magical "Jerkens Lotion...
When Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson took office two years ago, he announced his new farm program in much the same manner as a spinster discovering a new beauty lotion. Castigating the old rigid-price support program as costly and incompetent, Benson proposed a new flexible support idea which he claimed would cut wasteful surpluses while promoting farm efficiency. Answering Democratic criticism, he denied that his plan would lower prices for efficient and cooperative farmers...