Word: smiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smile." Arthur Murray himself owns only one dance studio outright (in Manhattan), but he keeps a firm hand on the others under franchise, takes 10% of their gross. His instructors, who get $55 to $100 a week, go through a month's training period before getting an arm around a customer, are carefully briefed on the best techniques. "You are not dressed for work until you put on a smile!" cautions an instruction pamphlet. "Everyone should use a deodorant! Perfume does not conceal...
...police lieutenant stamped inside each bus. "Wipe that smile off your face," he barked. "You guys are in real trouble. What are you laughing for? Just because you guys go to Harvard and have a lot of money is no reason for you to take advantage of us. I'd just as soon book you all in a minute. Some of us went to school...
...four minutes), then were sentenced to hard labor. His guard asked him how many years he had got. "I told him 25," said Keuntje. "He looked at his list and said I must be mistaken; his list said only five. Later he rechecked and told me with a smile: 'You were right...
Into the ornate Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building last week crowded 239 reporters for President Eisenhower's 15th press conference. After a few pleasantries, Ike said with a flicker of a smile: "I could start off, I think, by confirming something that is certainly by no means news any more." Then he announced the appointment of California's Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike was dead right that it was no longer news. The reason it wasn't touched off one of the most heated battles newsmen...
...high-powered selling methods, the nation's No. 1 soap salesman is no backslapping glad-hander in the tradition of the American drummer. At 48, Neil McElroy, a towering 6 ft. 4 in., given to conservative clothes, is a methodical man, with a quick smile and the unruffled air of a winning poker player. His wavy hair is greying, his blue eyes sharp. He keeps his 210 Ibs. in trim shape with plenty of tennis...