Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked out by seventh-graders. > An eighth-grade soap sculpture of a peasant tilling his land with a primitive plow. Back of the peasant is a stone wall. A classmate told the sculptor: "They didn't have stone walls in those days.'' Said the sculptor: "That's a symbolic wall to show the beginning...
...Focus of recent May Days has been Moscow's awesome Red Square. There this year, braving an annoying soap shortage, Russia staged its annual May Day revels, a display of rumbling tanks, massed troops, zooming warplanes, in praise of its successful "struggle for peace." Among the bigwigs who surrounded Man-of-Peace Stalin atop Lenin's tomb were new faces, the representatives of Bessarabia and Bukovina. Slogan of the day was "Strengthen the Red Army and Intelligence Service...
...Kopetzky, new president of the New York State Medical Society. He suggested that the Army provisionally induct all men with "remediable defects" such as hernia, bad teeth, venereal disease, etc., and establish hospitals to cure them. But the Army's Surgeon General James Carre Magee said, unofficially, no soap-the Army has its hands full already...
Last week, once more demonstrating that there is room for sensitivity as well as soap in radio script shows, crack Producer-Director Corwin put his hand to another feature called 26 by Corwin. In the first program, a bantering radio ABC, Author Corwin elfed blithely through both the alphabet and a broadcasting studio...
...sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer he discovered and married, Maxine Sullivan...