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Sweet Words. In San Francisco, newspaper readers got their first whiff of a scented sales stunt. The Emporium department store and Bombi Perfumer, Inc. had printers mix Black Magic perfume with the ink for their full-page perfume ads. Result: Emporium sold out its stock of Black Magic in less than...
...sponsors hurl their own hot words at Hecht in full-page ads: "There are new playboys in America; they play with Jewish blood. The thrills of Hollywood are no longer sharp enough. They need lustier excitement, bolder showmanship. . . . They egg on the mad children of the Irgun: the distant whiff of bombs is headier than a cocktail...
...they tossed all sorts of powdered substances into the fog in their laboratory "cold chamber." Silver iodide did the trick magnificently, turning the fog to snow. Silver iodide crystals are hexagonal, as snow crystals are. Apparently snowflakes recognize the kinship and are fooled into hanging on. An infinitesimal whiff is enough. In the presence of iodine vapor a single electric spark will knock enough silver out of a dime to start a snow flurry. Burning a cotton string impregnated with silver iodide makes enough crystalline smoke to cause a sizable snowstorm...
...things had helped the American survive its colicky infancy. When Stars and Stripes suspended in the Mediterranean, thousands of G.I.s switched to the civilian daily. And last summer tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who got a whiff of printers' ink in Italy as a part-time I.N.S. correspondent, bought a minority block of stock...
...some of these little stink bombs which Senator Saltonstall smelled. Some other equally respectable "sponsors" of the Council caught the whiff and withdrew: Harold Ickes, executive chairman of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and professions; Judge Learned Hand of the Circuit Court of Appeals; Congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin of Manhattan; William L. Batt, wartime vice chairman of WPB; Kansas Republican Senator Arthur Capper...