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Making a Score. Lavin is the kind of restlessly imaginative salesman who probably would have done well in anything that involves going for broke in fluid markets. A University of Washington graduate ('40), he worked for a number of small companies (everything from moth cakes to perfume), directed the TV ad campaign that made Stopette the best-selling deodorant of the early 1950s. Unhappy to see someone else get most of the benefit, he borrowed $488,000 in 1955 to buy Alberto-Culver and promptly dropped 24 of its 25 small-selling products to concentrate on VO5 hairdressing, began...
...bitterness, the old man wrests a kind of gallows humor from his life. Noting a hole in his wool sweater, he mutters: "So have a good meal, moths. Soon I'll be dead. You'll have the whole sweater to yourselves. And my suit, too. Not that I think it's worth eating. But then I wouldn't know. I'm not a moth." A reader is torn between exasperation and pity. It is a measure of Fruchter's skill that he can make the old man so grotesque and at the same time...
Then steered the white moth thither in the night...
...components of the world in terms of bears and blueberrying, they feel, just won't do. Yet they are aware of another Frost, the Frost of that small, chilling masterpiece called Design, which offers a vision, in miniature, of active malevolence in the world. After finding a moth killed by a white spider lying in wait and masked by a white flower that usually is blue. Frost asks...
Buzzing onto the runway of Bombay's Juhu Airport, the single-engined de Havilland Leopard-Moth looked as if it might be powered by rubber bands. But the 1933-vintage monoplane was admirably airworthy. Out of the cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin...