Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Gilbert Colgate, 74, soap & toothpaste tycoon, onetime board chairman of Colgate & Co. which his grandfather founded in 1806 (merged in 1928 to make Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...anniversary number. Editor George Teeple Eggleston resisted the temptation to fill the book with reprints of 50-year-old drawings and text. The cover is a dainty color-photograph of a group modelled in soap by Lester Gaba-a girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together...
...would be revealing, if hardly fair, to report that one of Authoress Jameson's favorite words is "sour." But so many successful authors deal in soft soap that it is scarcely surprising if less acclaimed but equally competent competitors take to acid. The three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend...
Even enemies of the smart, soft-soaping Chancellor?Germany's modern Machiavelli?admitted that his program speech was a masterpiece of soap...
...been succeeding. He got his first job with Chicago's Motion Picture News, then sold space for Butterick Publishing Co.'s Home Sector. He worked with several agencies before he went with J. Walter Thompson in 1925. There he was a vice president, handled the Lux (soap) account. His specialty is psychology. To study abnormal minds he has built up one of the largest private libraries on the subject. His studies of the mass mind are made at Coney Island and in large department stores, subways. On many a summer night he has, though usually a reticent person...