Word: tobaccoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the late George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Loewy won a $50,000 bet that he could improve the green & gold package of Lucky Strikes. He finally even persuaded Hill to change it to white (Lucky Strike green went to war) on the argument that since people put cigarettes in their mouths, they like to see them in sanitary-looking containers...
...true turns: a dog act, a comedy team of acrobats, tap and ballroom dancers, comedians, songbirds, straight men. Gus Van (of venerable Van & Schenck) did a tear-jerking ballad about the good old days; Ray Bolger danced a comic solo interpretation of the Joe Louis-Tony Galento fight; James (Tobacco Road) Barton played a drunk; Beatrice Lillie (who played the Palace in 1931 at $10,000 a week) sang There Are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...
...Kentucky, triple-chinned Representative Virgil Chapman, tippling 300-lb. friend of the tobacco growers, nosed out labor-backed John Young Brown, onetime Congressman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination. In November he will oppose Republican John Sherman Cooper, who won a tradition-smashing victory in the 1946 off-year election...
Splash. In Weston, W.Va., a tobacco-spitting contest was won by Mrs. Garnet Pudder...
...Betty ("Legs") Grable, with a tidy $299,300, was the top moneymaker among U.S. women (trumpeting husband Harry James did $100,036 worth of breadwinning in the movies alone). Automaker Charles E. Wilson (General Motors) made $337,193, and the late super-Huckster George Washington Hill (American Tobacco...