Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smithsonian gets the money it needs, one of the first exhibits to be spruced up will be the fading dresses once worn in the White House. Carefully fitted to wax dummies, the old clothes will be displayed in eight separate rooms, complete with White House mantelpieces, furniture and odd bric-a-brac. "Women," says Dr. A. Remington Kellogg, director of research, "deserve a fine setting...
Last week in his third-floor apartment, the general-who supports himself and his pretty Polish wife by managing a floor-wax company-was busy planning his future battles against the Red army. "By now the world should know that foreign armies will never conquer Russia," he said. "Only a nationalist army of Russians, fighting Communism but not Russia, can ever hope to succeed. The cadre of that army meets in this room every Saturday. One day the world will call us." Meanwhile, the floor-wax business is fairly brisk...
...Wells called him "the most dangerous man in London." Madame Tussaud modeled him in wax. "Hannen Swaffer," said Press Lord Beaverbrook, "is the greatest personality that has walked down Fleet Street in our time." London's World's Press News called him "more abused praised, hated and feared than any journalist living...
Nevertheless, someone must head the Secretariat. And selection is a major problem since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
...Warner Bros, is producing a Natural Vision 3-D thriller, House of Wax...