Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran Sergeant Crowne shaves with floor soap ("Cold water, good rough soap and a bluntish blade, and you know you've 'ad a shave"). He calls Sergeant Hands "Ramon Novarro," because Hands uses brushless shaving cream and washes in a bucket. Fatty Teedale is "the only man in the Brigade of Guards who . . . bites his toenails" ("It makes my blood run cold to hear him"), and keeps the most promising growth for "a long bite . . . after Church Parade." Slugging Private Alison dreams of a hand-to-hand fight-to-the-death between Churchill and Hitler ("Old Winnie breathes...
...lowly soap opera this week enlisted the services of a superexpensive fictioneer. Kathleen Norris, with 30-odd years of highly paid slick-paper romancing behind her, took over the job of grinding out Swan Soap's Bright Horizon (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 11:30-11:45 a.m. E.W.T...
Says Veteran Norris of soap operas in general: "I feel they are reaching the very heart of American women . . . and that's where I want to be." To get her there, Swan Soap will give her $750 a week for the first 13 weeks, $850 for the next 13, $1,000 a week thereafter...
...published in the overseas edition, but printed in their 18 domestic editions, is the C.I.O. News's slyest attempt at sugarcoating: a comic strip called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed...
...enslavement and death of countless millions of workers may result from a newly discovered method of producing glycerine (currently produced as a byproduct of soap manufacture). Whether the process reported by Canada's National Research Council in Ottawa will be adopted commercially depends largely on the efficiency of the workers' digestive apparatus. In any case, no one will protest their exploitation. The workers are microscopic members of the clan Bacillus subtilis...