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...goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads, 8% of the toasters and 4% of the coffeemakers sold in the U.S. Stamps may be issued along with any transaction-buying a toothbrush, a new car, a new house, opening a savings account. In a few sordid instances, pastors have been inspired to issue stamps to Sunday churchgoers...
...billings last year of $380 million. In the driver's seat at Thompson is President Norman Hulbert Strouse, 55, a determinedly unemotional man whose prime strength lies not in the creative side of advertising but in meticulously efficient administration of his sprawling organization. Like Strouse, who wears a toothbrush mustache and half-rimmed glasses, Thompson exudes an air of solid dependability. It shuns the hard sell to turn out orthodox, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford, Kodak and Kraft Foods. Strouse became the third chief executive in Thompson's 84-year history in 1960, when...
...took notice, because tennis, after all, had become a very insignificant sport. An editor of the New York Times even cut the little story from the late city edition, substituting one of their fillers: "Ty Cobb never owned toothbrush...
...forgot my toothbrush." says Doris Day, who suddenly realizes she is not THAT KIND OF GIRL. "I always carry a spare," says Cary Grant, with a shark-toothed grin. Doris knows that the best way to repulse a man is to look repulsive. She develops a rash, and Cary spends the night playing gin rummy with another sugarless daddy. Bye-bye baby, says Cary, suggesting that she return to the sanctity of Upper Sandusky...
...Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted...