Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arizona Cattle Growers Association, in collecting evidence of vandalism by deer and elk hunters, heard from one rancher who found a cake of soap floating in his galvanized iron cattle-watering trough this fall, and then discovered a pit containing wood ashes beneath it. A luxury-loving hunter, he deduced, had not only taken a bath in the trough but had carefully heated the water first. Another hunter, according to the association's files, rode out on the range in search of game, dismounted to reconnoiter, sighted an animal, shot it, rushed up, knife in hand, to slit...
From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
...intent on Palm Springs' 70 Telemeter set owners. Some of their comments: Director William (Roman Holiday) Wyler-"It's fine if we get paid. If movies are going to wind up on TV screens, I don't want to have a picture interrupted to talk about soap." Director Mervyn (Quo Vadis) LeRoy- "Telemeter is great. If a picture is worth seeing, it's worth paying for. If the payment is right, it can be great for the picture business...
...Laramie, Wyo., Scientist Robert P. Pfeifer of the University of Wyoming reported a new use for daytime radio programs. When amplified over a public-address system set in a grain field, soap operas "were enough to scare the wits out of blackbirds and sparrows. The predators quickly chose other fields of grain to feed...
...Different Color. In Paris, police charged 18 slaughterhouse workers with stealing 20 million francs' ($57,142) worth of fats from the horses they slaughtered, selling it to soap factories, using the money to bet on the races...