Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Facts with Wax. As if this were not enough, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas kept carping about a couple of additional problems. For one thing, the nine-man Senate Office Building Commission had ordered two bronze plaques (total cost: $5,000), emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers...
Douglas answered his own question by suggesting the use of a nonslip floor polish. With that, Wisconsin's Bill Proxmire (who hails from the state where Johnson's Wax makes its home) offered to let Douglas use his office for a waxing bee. Few days later, Washington newsmen and TV crews crammed into Proxmire's office to watch a high-speed floor-waxing machine tow the two Senators around the room like water skiers. It all proved, claimed Proxmire breathlessly, that the floors were really nonslip (although his receptionist takes no chances, keeps a pair of sneakers...
With her waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
...several of the buildings rated today as among the alltime greats of U.S. architecture. Among them: "Falling Water," in Bear Run, Pa., Wright's first reinforced-concrete house, in which he flung cantilevered floors dramatically out over the waterfall; the S.C. Johnson & Son Co.'s Racine, Wis. wax factory, with soaring mushroom columns in the work space and a 16-story laboratory tower completely sheathed in glass tubing...
...ordered to head west, find Jesse James and keep him alive at all costs. "B-b-but." Hope stammers, "I'm liable to get killed." To which the boss bellows a retort that is just as funny now as it was when Aristophanes was scratching the wax: "Stop trying to cheer...