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...dials like to listen to. His initial reasoning about radio selling was cautious, but sound: if cooking talks could sell Crisco, maybe washing talks could sell soap. They did. Before long he had supplemented Ruth Turner's Washing Talks with the more varied salesmanship of Sisters of the Skillet, Stoopnagle & Budd, and the B. A. Rolfe orchestra. In 1932 (although he disclaims the honor and dislikes the baby's nickname) he officiated at the birth of P & G's outstanding contribution to radio: the soap opera...
...heard about a young Polish girl who had refused to undress for a shower. The degenerate, sadistic Mussfelt who ran the crematorium ordered her shoved into the furnace alive. Her hair burned quick and bright. Then she crisped up like bacon on an over-hot skillet...
...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
Since he appeared on the national scene, five weeks ago, as an advocate of appeasement, Verne Marshall has been sizzling like grease in a hot skillet. While objectors to Mr. Marshall and the press were frying him on all sides, last week someone flipped him from the frying pan into the fire. The flipper: doughty Dr. Leon Milton Birkhead. Dr. Birkhead, who is head of the Friends of Democracy, Inc., flipped Mr. Marshall with a long-handled telegram...
Collared Bottles. One point of focus last week was on the U. S. aluminum supply. This spot gleamed like a skillet in the sun. As usual, 1) something was wrong, 2) the immediate point was a small spot on a large fact. The fact: the U. S. must have more aluminum (for airplanes, engines, ships, trucks, many & many another defense item) than it has ever before produced...