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...stories in this new collection deal with Whitest Africa. Some blacks do appear, but only to serve meals, provide background music or fetch and carry...
...case involved the Harte-Hanks Newspaper Group (eight newspapers in Texas), which in 1954 bought the daily Banner in Greenville (pop. 20,000), a northeast Texas county seat boasting the "blackest soil, whitest people." Harte-Hanks increased the size of the paper and its advertising staff, but could not show a profit. Meantime, the moneymaking, family-owned Greenville Herald, faced with this tougher competition, fell into the red. In 1956 the Herald, weakened by losses, was forced to sell out to Harte-Hanks. By the next year the merged Herald-Banner (circ. 8,694) was making money...
...Light, "Duz does a wash like no detergent can-it's the soap in Duz that does it!" On Life Can Be Beautiful, life can really be beautiful if Tide is used ("Gets clothes cleaner than any soap"); on Backstage Wife, Cheer's "blue magic" guarantees "the whitest, brightest and the cleanest wash possible...
...interview Samia Gamal, who bears the official title of "national dancer of Egypt"; she obliged by a few writhes and steps from an "oriental dance" for the assembled press. Wrote one reporter: "Her midriff rolled in a slow rhythm, her jet black eyes shot stars and she flashed the whitest teeth in the Middle East." For Farouk she had a special number, "The Bride of the Nile," which (said the newsman) "has a romantic beginning, a tragic finale and, as Samia does it, a restless middle...
...town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...