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...Central Television Service, Inc. (with the help of a psychologist) for its own and fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...
...Odor of Dead Fish. At wit's end by Feb. 3, 1927, Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against...
GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Unbaited Breath. For henpecked husbands-and others who don't dare smell of liquor-Merchants Distilling Corp. of Terre Haute, Ind. put on the market vodka with a dash of chlorophyll to kill any breath odor. The first 1,000 cases of green "Vodkafyll" sold out in Los Angeles in three weeks. While it works well for virtually tasteless vodka, chlorophyll is less practical in gin, Scotch...
...salmon, "the king of fresh-water fish": a garden worm that has been annointed with the oil of ivy berries. The odor is "enough to force any fish within the smell of them to bite...
...comparable to checking all the Joes on Chicago's South Side. When they came to the home of Politician Hossain Khatibi, once a prominent supporter of Mossadegh and now loudly in opposition, they were bothered by the heavy smell of perfume mixed with another, hard-to-place odor. Under questioning, the servants cracked: the other smell, which the perfume was intended to hide, was chloroform...