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Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
...shops. Einson-Freeman Co. made most of them. Jigsaw puzzles had been with U. S. citizens for two or three generations without becoming a fad until clever Morris Einson sold an idea to Prophylactic Products Corp. last summer. Prophylactic offered one of Mr. Einson's puzzles with every toothbrush it sold. A million brushes were sold-and a million puzzles. Pepsodent took up the idea, began giving away more of Einson-Freeman's puzzles which when put together revealed the faces of Amos & Andy and the celebrated Goldbergs. Sunshine Biscuit, Standard Oil, Squibb fell in line. In November...
Like a conjurer bringing himself out of a silk hat, a little natty man with a toothbrush mustache entered a Manhattan speakeasy one evening last week very quietly. He knew his getting out of the hat at all was a sensation. Last seen in a Paris jail after a U. S. woman missed a $100 American Express check, Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have...