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Wipe & Wax. Racine's (Wis.) Johnson's Wax Co. put on the market Jubilee, a combination wax and cleaner for kitchen stoves, refrigerators, walls and woodwork. It removes greasy cooking films, stains and smudges, leaves a hard, protective wax coating. Price of one pint, enough to clean...
...Pint-sized (4 ft. 8 in.) Mme. Landowska, 73, is unchallenged high priestess of the plunky, double-keyboard instrument for which Bach wrote, before the piano supplanted it in the 18th century. Under her dedicated leadership, the harpsichord is having something of a revival, and her recording of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is already a modern classic. Next week RCA Victor will release its fifth album, leaving her one album still...
...first things about Clary that startle an audience are his broad shoulders, pint size (5 ft. 1 in.) and graphic homeliness. An audience may expect almost anything from such a fellow, but never fails to be surprised by what it gets-a "belt" by one of the biggest voices now at large in a nightclub. Said one guest: "I never heard anything so big come out of anything so little." Hitting on all decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then...
...freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a Welshman, but ten years as a knockabout laborer in Australia had made him as indigenous as a kangaroo. When he became Australia's World War I Prime Minister, the Anzacs draped a big slouch hat around his pint-sized head, dubbed him "Little Digger...
...shortage which has had all defense authorities worried. Parents who have never bothered to give blood for the wounded in Korea might gladly give buckets to get shots of G.G. for their own children. Blood banks might give a credit of one inoculation for every pint of blood that the family donates. But the bottleneck in processing, the wrangles over distribution, and the high price of G.G. will remain to plague the authorities...