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...Ointment, Not Lash. Now, in the space of one year, he himself had translated the Dulles words into the Dulles deed: the Japanese Treaty (TIME, Jan. 22 et seq.). It was not yet an accomplished fact; the treaty still teetered in the balance of events. On Sept. 4, some 50 nations (he hoped) would meet in San Francisco to sign it; the U.S. Senate and the other governments would have to confirm it. "The treaty," Dulles has anxiously observed, "is in jeopardy every day of its life...
...astray also. One advises shaving cats & dogs to prevent their fur from becoming radioactive; another advises the citizen to throw his money and jewelry away to avoid added problems if it should become contaminated.The most dangerous suggestion: that atomic burns be covered with vaseline or some patent anti-atomic ointment (recommended treatment-covering burns with only a sterile bandage until a doctor arrives...
Died. Sir Charles Blake Cochran, 78, England's leading showman ("The British Barnum"); of injuries suffered in scalding bath water, which he was too crippled by arthritis to turn off; in London. Shrewd "C.B." started out selling a quack ointment in the U.S., wound up selling Britain's top stars (Noel Coward, Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence) to transatlantic theatergoers. Specializing in both beauty ("Mr. Cochran's Young Ladies") and beasts (he introduced rodeo to a somewhat startled England), he promoted anything he considered a good show ("I would rather see a good juggler than a bad Hamlet...
Bevies of Angelo's and Anna's relatives welcomed the happy couple, but there was a small fly in the ointment. Naples, and the world, had changed in three decades; Angelo's brothers were anti-Catholic Communists; Anna's people, the Coronas, were anti-Communist Catholics. Queerly enough, they all lived in the same building, on the Via Padre Ludovico da Casoria, near Naples' biggest market...
...Little, president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. ($350,000); A. A. Somerville, vice president of Manhattan's R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Inc., which distributes chemicals ($319,398); Seton Porter, president of National Distillers Products Corp. ($310,000); Theodore Seltzer, president of Bengue Inc., which makes Ben-Gay ointment ($295,613); and G. A. Bryant, president of a Cleveland building firm, Austin...