Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Lean and wiry (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ibs.), caustic and witty, brusque Yankee. Married in 1923 to Rachel White, who regularly packed his lunches while he was governor, once repaid him for morning grouchiness by filling his sandwiches with laundry soap. On another occasion, Adams objected to Rachel's driving the family car to morning-coffee sessions with neighboring housewives, padlocked the garage door. His wife entered the garage through a side door, rocked the car back & forth until she pushed the front doors off their hinges. The Adamses have three daughters, a son and three grandchildren...
...when I'm through with you"), and so is all the acting, but there are plenty of simple-minded laughs. The Bob Hope Show (weekdays, 9:30 a.m., NBC) is designed strictly for housewives who want something to laugh at over their vacuum cleaners before tuning in the soap operas. Hope handles the job in snappy style (before a live audience of ladies), dots the radio program with interviews and a weekly "guest lady editor," e.g., Zsa Zsa Gabor, Cobina Wright...
...loved Yugoslavia. I knew she would live and grow. I took a job as street-car conductor. There are many things I don't like; sometimes we can change things on a local level. I can complain to you sitting here, but I can't get on a soap-box or use the press. Not so much freedom, but I have faith in the Old Brother...
...rumpus than on paper. It was the instigator of the series of anti-war demonstrations that produced yearly riots at the University. As long as the party line of the period preached peace over all, peace crusades were the chief activity of Communist groups. They held mass meetings, parades, soap-box harrangues, and released doves of peace from the steps of Widener...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...