Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody Outsells G.U.M." [TIME, March 15]: Heaven save us from Communism if for no other reason than what the U.S.S.R. has done to the perfume industry. Imagine Ava Gardner slithering into a room enveloped in "Essence of the U.S. Cavalry." I wonder how "Riveter's Dream" or "Spirit of Capitalist Wall Street" would sell...
Reading about an issue of this sort makes me wonder what effect this will have on the already too low re-enlistment rate of the armed forces today. If you were a G.I. what would you think...
...Uvalde, Texas, John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, 85, was sorry that he is a disappointment to tourists who come around expecting a scenic wonder. "People come by here to see me," he drawled. "They want to see what a former Vice President looks like. They expect to see some big, imposing man. And it's me. I'm just a little old Democrat...
...Healer. A plastic adhesive bandage impregnated with streptomycin, polymyxin and bacitracin is being test-marketed by Multibiotics Corp. of Baltimore. Called "Bio-Band," the bandage has been approved by the Food & Drug Administration for over-the-counter sale, is the first bandage treated with wonder drugs available without a prescription...
...wonder is that, with so much to dislike. Dodgson had any room left for pleasure. Yet his Diaries, now published for the first time, show that when Dodgson was not sunk deep in indignation, he was full of buoyant zest. If his Diaries make dull reading, it is partly because the author of the Diaries is not "Lewis Carroll" or even "dynamite." He is a shy professor who talked with a stammer and had an honest heart and a love of anonymity. About this man the Diaries are a mine of information...