Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only ammonia will take it out and they will never think of ammonia. They will try soap and water and it will make it that much worse, and it will go into the cellar and it will ruin...
...Chicago judge, Miller entered radio as a soap-opera actor soon after his graduation from Knox College, Galesburg, 111. in 1938, and after three years in the World War II Navy, became program director at Chicago's WIND, soon switched to disk jockeying and became an immediate success...
Suds & Tears. Playing a lewd, brash burlesque comedian, Sir Laurence often lifted the play-a juvenile soap opera in its triter lines-to the heights of a new Pagliacci. Most critics agreed that Olivier, with real virtuosity and superb support, had disproved the footlight adage that actors can be no better than their material. But Playwright Osborne was not disparaged too severely. Of all theatrical talents, perhaps the uncanniest is an ability to write the sort of humdrum drama that great actors can instinctively exalt. On this bittersweet basis, John Osborne got his share of the applause. But the tears...
...Corporation feels that organizations and faculty members would be in effect selling the name of Harvard to money-making hucksters and sellers of soap. In 1950, for example, the Monsanto Chemical Company offered the Glee Club $300 to sing on one of a series of shows featuring New England singing groups. The Glee Club could not accept the offer, because it was felt that $300 was an insulting bid from ad men who would make $30,000 from the show...
...practice, of course, the Corporation comprises its ideals by allowing the Atlantic Refining Company to broadcast football games. There seems to be little difference, by their reasoning, between Harvard's "keeping your car on the go;" and her wishing everybody used Dial soap: except that the broadcasts were begun long ago, before the rule was adopted, in response to wide alumni interest in the games. But certainly the University has in the past ignored alumni interest and feels that undergraduate sentiment is almost as important a factor...