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...three companies peddling arthritis and rheumatism palliatives: Buffalo's Mentholatum Co., maker of Mentholatum Rub; Manhattan's Whitehall Pharmacal Co., maker of Infra-Rub and Heet; and Jersey City's Omega Chemical Co., distributor of Omega...
Typical spot commercial (for Mentholatum Rub): "These are arthritic hands. They belong to a retired foreman and 20-year sufferer of arthritic pain and misery. You're looking at them now as they experience a totally new kind of pain relief . . ." An Infra-Rub plug: "Brings comforting warmth from deep within . . . 146 doctors report success based on hundreds of cases." For Omega Oil: "It contains an active ingredient that actually penetrates the skin...
...Titleholders Championship last week was the climax of the lady golf pros' long winter's tournament trek, and the rain-soaked, sidehill fairways of Georgia's Augusta Country Club course sapped the spring from Patty's 39-year-old legs. Between rounds she had to rub them with liniment; she even took an extra nap. "There's no doubt about it," she sighed. "It isn't as easy as it once was. Why, I won the Titleholders here in 1939 with four rounds averaging 80. Today I couldn't win a hamburger with...
While all this is indeed enjoyable for the players off the ice, there is one rub to Broadmoor, or rather to Colorado Springs. The city itself is almost 7000 feet above sea level, and the oxygen content of the air is considerably lower than at sea level. This has no effect on CC teams as they are used to it, but eastern sextets have often found that they are far more tired in the third period than they had been throughout the season. This year Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland decided not to bring oxygen along on the trip as other...
...handsome, Ripleyesque explorer who alternated expeditions to Tanganyika, Manchuria and the arctic with lectures and radio broadcasts about flying frogs, African snowstorms and fish that winked from the treetops, once got $3,500 a week from a film company for Raffles, his garrulous myna bird, wrote widely about his rub-Dernecking (A Jungleman and His Animals); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...