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Then the rug was pulled out from under Glamorene, and the Digest got a bad scare. In San Francisco, a Pan American World Airways serviceman died after cleaning a plane's rug, and the coroner's jury reported that the victim had died from inhaling "halogenated hydrocarbon" from trichloroethylene, one of Glamorene's components. Professional rug cleaners gleefully took ads reproducing news stories about the San Francisco case and urging homeowners to avoid mishap by having experts clean their rugs. The health department banned Glamorene sales in San Francisco...
Political Debut. In November 1945, a Republican fact-finding committee in California's 12th Congressional District was looking for a candidate, preferably a serviceman, to run against popular Democrat Jerry Voorhis (who had held the seat for ten years). A family friend of the Nixons saw the group's ad in a paper, called Dick, then in Baltimore, and asked him whether he was a Republican. Nixon replied that he had voted for Tom Dewey in 1944. In that case, said the friend, Nixon ought to come home and try for the job. Recalls Nixon: "Voorhis looked impossible...
...during the war has just revived. Through it, University men in the service are told of other University men in their camp. They can find the addresses of men they knew as students and they can send a friend a letter through PBH which will forward mail to a serviceman anywhere in the world. The committee also notifies Harvard Clubs throughout the country of an ex-student in the armed forces stationed nearby...
...agitator or a Red, believe me. I'm just goddam worried, that's all . . . SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD c/o Combat Camera Units c/o Postmaster San Francisco...
...want to live the "sinful" life and have it on our conscience, can only get married in the local Catholic church . . . The soldier can get court-martialed for it, or shipped out of the command secretly and separated from his wife for life . . . SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD U.S.F.A. c/o Postmaster New York City...