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...attention to an extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace ... I went further. I began slathering myself with after-shave lotion, gargling with mouthwash, and even polishing my belt buckle before troop meetings...
...Tonic & Lotion. Breakfast done, the three fugitives took baths and shaved, helping themselves to Hill's hair tonic and shaving lotion. Then they helped themselves to Hill's suits. When Joseph discovered that six-footer Hill's suits didn't fit, he sat down at an old treadle sewing machine and carefully altered the trousers and sleeves. The thread broke repeatedly, and Mrs. Hill kept rethreading the needle...
Quick Curl. The Gillette Co. put on sale the Bobbi Pin-Curl home permanent, which eliminates the need for bulky curlers and a neutralizing solution. A woman simply applies the waving lotion, puts her hair up in special bobby pins and gets a wave overnight. Price...
...rooms to the Republicans. The Blackstone (where Eisenhower will stay) has produced such cocktails as the Eisenhower Eye-Opener (whisky sour), the Taft Teaser (Manhattan) and the Dark Horse (old fashioned). The Palmer House, mindful of the footwork delegates will have to do, is putting a bottle of foot lotion into each room. A major tourist attraction last week was the new eight-room, $40,000 presidential suite at the Congress Hotel where hundreds of visitors, held back by museum-like ropes, gazed at the master parlor and bar, the mahogany beds, the solid-gold faucet handles in the bathroom...
Before he found his future, at 14, Graham had made serious attempts at suicide. Once he drank some photograph developing fluid and a bottle of hay-fever lotion. Another time he tried eating a bunch of deadly nightshade. He can still remember "the curious sensation of swimming through wool" after swallowing 20 aspirins and jumping into the school swimming pool...