Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once a week he gets up at 4 o'clock and starts his arduous pilgrimage-an hour by bike, an hour by bus, two hours by train, another half-hour by bus, and then a last 20 minutes on the bike. Twenty-nine bald and bewigged girls, taking van Rooijen's treatments, have sought out household jobs in Een. As a result Een, unlike the rest of Holland, has no servant shortage...
...Van Rooijen charges 350 guilders ($132) for a course of treatments. He does not claim success in every case; he promises to refund the fee (less 1 guilder per treatment for the first six weeks) if, after a year, there is no "clearly visible" growth of hair. The procedure is to brush the patient's scalp, apply the secret fluid, then brush the scalp again. Van Rooijen will not allow an analysis of his formula by Dutch medical men, who are skeptical of his claims.* If the doctors want to see results, says the barber sharply, let them look...
...much mail is pouring in from eager baldheads abroad that van Rooijen's wife has started a stamp collection. The barber already has seven girls helping him in the shop at Een. Later this month he plans to branch out; his son will open a ten-chair shop in Amsterdam...
Says Miss Annie, one of the girls helping van Rooijen: "Who would have thought men were so vain...
...doing her best to wrinkle the collar along the edge. But the collar wouldn't wrinkle. To Seymour J. Phillips, 46, president of Phillips-Jones Corp., this was a historic occasion, as historic as the one more than 20 years ago when the company brought out its famed Van Heusen collar* and revolutionized the shirt industry. Phillips hoped to start another revolution with his no-wrinkle collar. He had worked the trick by weaving the several plies of cloth used for an ordinary collar into a single thickness...