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Mozart & Chamois. Most of the 15,000 U.S. occupation troops in Austria were boys between 18 and 22. Weaned on ice cream sodas, they had known little except the good life of high-school dances and corner drugstores. The U.S. Army helped to transplant much of that life to Austria. It set up replicas of U.S. drugstores where G.I.s could take their Austrian girls for a soda (daily ice-cream consumption of the U.S. Army & friends in Vienna now runs to 60,000 scoops...
Simplicity is the enema keynote in the Atomic Age. Best ingredients: "plain lukewarm water, or perhaps just a trace of bicarbonate of soda or ordinary salt." Warns Dr. Lieberman: "Soap is a very popular ingredient now, unjustly so, because in most cases it is unnecessary and irritating...
...nepotism. Over the objections of fellow executives, he busily rearranged the interiors of Walgreen drugstores, showed that it was just as important to put an article in the right place in a store as to put the right things in the manufacture of the article. Sample change: he separated soda fountains and drug counters, so that soda-sippers and sandwich-chewers wouldn't be confronted by laxative ads. (Now he buries prescription counters in the back of stores lest they take up valuable space for rag dolls, books, etc.) In 1941 United hired Dart away from Walgreen...
Then she fired up the stove, crammed Faustina into several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
Frank Sanborn had first startled the Mexican drug business by refusing to pay doctors a percentage on prescriptions he filled. His next innovation: an American soda fountain. By 1919, when Sanborn's moved to the Casa de Azulejos, it had become a favorite gathering place for Mexicans and American tourists alike...