Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heir to the soap millions of Mennen Co., Williams finds precedent for his presidential hopes in the political success of another Democrat born to wealth. Writes he: "Many younger businessmen who would like to participate actively in the Democratic Party do not do so because they are afraid to. In some areas the young man in a profession or in business is ostracized if he becomes or remains a Democrat. He is looked on as a traitor to his class. This epithet was applied to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I have heard this foolishness applied...
...Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera, produced at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater, is a tuneful romp through the world of the daytime TV serial. The libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at the point where a married doctor is pursuing his beautiful nurse, who in turn is in love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about...
...this spare, direct first novel by a 25-year-old Californian, the members of the triangle are less interesting than the author's skill at triangulation. The draftee hero is clean-cut enough to be a sidekick of Frank Merriwell. The girl is sweet enough to grace a soap ad. And the bedeviled antagonist is the victim of an unconscious drive that makes him pathetic rather than villainous. Yet this is the kind of book that demands to be read at one sitting: the people may not be important, but their story...
...never reveal my sources of information," shot back Churchill. "I'm a journalist, not a television interviewer. One's only doing you a favor by coming, I mean, you're making a lot of money. Some dirty people who sell soap are making a lot of money out of it. I'm not getting a farthing out of it. Why the hell should I let myself be bullied around and kicked around by you? We [in England] do as we choose and we just don't take it bloody lying down. Your shame...
...politics out of bounds for such interlopers as Defense Secretary Neil McElroy and his predecessor, Godfrey's former good friend Charlie Wilson: "As far as I'm concerned, professional politicians are the men who should be the leaders in Washington. This business of bringing in auto and soap manufacturers is darned foolish. They simply cannot know their way around the intricacies of Government . . . Since I've learned the intricacies of the Government, I spend as much time as possible briefing Senators and Congressmen about air power as I know...