Word: mousetrapped
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...armor. IBM's army of salesmen is the industry's best paid-incomes average $16,000 to $20.000 a year-and most numerous. Complains Dr. Louis T. Rader, president of Sperry-Rand's Univac division: "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen...
...family uses it" is steadily giving way to the self-service shopping cart. Today, advertising is the magnet that draws customers into the nation's supermarkets and department stores, and the prime mover of human inventiveness. Emerson notwithstanding, a man has small inspiration to build a better mousetrap unless he can mass-produce it and shout to the world about...
...Master of the Mousetrap" had a record at Western Maryland of 60 wins, 13 losses, and 7 ties. Between 1942-45 Harlow served as a Navy commander and joined many of his players in World War II service...
...could be expected. The Mousetrap is a moderately awful play, not really in the same class with Christie's Witness for the Prosecution. Marooning its characters in an ancient manor house in a snowstorm, it festoons them with such stupendous lines as "By the time the snow has melted, a lot of things may have happened" and "There are six of you listening to me now -one of you is the killer...
Unsportingly, London's Sunday Dispatch revealed the identity of the killer in its review nine years ago. The producers feared that might kill off the play. Instead, the Dispatch itself folded. Mousetrap not only survived but expects to go on snapping for some time to come...