Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colossal Effigy. In 1920, John went on one of his most famous rampages. Shortly after he had finished a portrait of Lord Leverhulme, founder of the Lever Bros, soap empire, the canvas was returned with the head cut out of the picture. "I wrote to his Lordship requiring an explanation of this remarkable proceeding . . . I received in return a letter stating that, on finding the picture too large to place in his safe, the owner had cut out what he considered to be the most important part, that is the head . . . As for the remainder, it had been sent back...
...Although his pushmobile racer suffered tour smashed wheels and he was badly bruised in a first-heat crackup, eleven-year-old Joe Lunn of Thomasville, Ga. effected repairs, got bandaged up, and pressed on to win the 15th running of the All American Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio. Time for the 9754-ft. course...
...Zest. Procter & Gamble began test sales of Zest, a soap which holds the dirt and grime in suspension in the water, doesn't leave a ring around the bathtub. P. & G. claims Zest will produce suds even in salt water. Price: approximately 15? a cake...
Lady of the Descamisados. Only nine years ago, Eva Duarte was just a beguiling girl from a modest home in the pampas, trying to make her way in movie bit parts and radio soap operas. Her assets -a trim, 5-ft.-5-in. figure, a coldly sexy manner and a shrewd if untutored brain -made her popular at parties. At one of them she met Colonel Juan Perón, then a comer in the Ministry of War. That very night they slipped off to a seaside resort; soon they were occupying next-door apartments...
...chalice, it is soon stolen, never to be seen again, but a "miracle" enables Basil to finish the casing: he sees, and carves on it, a vision of Jesus. Author Costain's own vision of all this comes pretty close to reducing early Christianity to soap opera...