Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passport, Craig served well as a divisional staff officer (G3) with the 80th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach and was in combat for 239 days in Europe in 1944-45. With the 80th Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division's operations...
...panel failed in its first snap judgments (upset stomach, twisted esophagus), and time ran out before they could correctly identify the ailment (a sty). Lucky Contestant Passanante (played by Singer Steve Lawrence) won the full prize: two weeks' free hospitalization and "a year's supply of carbolated soap...
...Bureau, there was a 27% increase in the production of artificial silk underwear and a 6% increase in cotton fabrics, but in surveying the whole field, the bureau found that "much of this production was still of unsatisfactory quality." Makers of pianos, cameras, champagne, cigarettes, sausages, tea, matches and soap had exceeded their production quotas...
Perhaps seeing the handwriting on the wall, veteran Announcer Dick Stark, who has earned as much as $150,000 a year selling Chesterfield cigarettes. Camay soap. Amm-i-dent toothpaste and Remington electric shavers, is now hard at work studying architecture and will quit broadcasting entirely when he graduates. Another high-income veteran, Ed Herlihy, had this month to make a tough decision: after eight years as announcer on NBC's Kraft TV Theater, Herlihy got the choice of signing an exclusive contract or leaving the show. He decided to stick with his other accounts (Colgate, Oldsmobile, French...
...remarried in the meantime, and his grown-up daughter. He gets caught up with a whole series of characters who are more representative than real: a serious painter who stays alive by strumming a guitar in a sleazy cabaret, an ex-admiral who checks shipments at a soap factory, a black-marketeering student with a nose for yen and a yen for such un-Japanese customs as holding hands and kissing. Like identical beads, these characters are threaded on the same theme another Japanese novelist, Kikou Yamata, recently used in her spare and superior novel, Lady of Beauty (TIME...