Word: wording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost 16 years, a bitter battle has raged between Carter Products, Inc. and the Federal Trade Commission over one word: liver. The FTC first tried in 1943 to get the "Liver"' dropped from Carter's Little Liver Pills. The pills, said the agency, did not help a sluggish liver, would not necessarily relieve that ''worn-out, sluggish, allin, listless, tired, stuffy, cranky, peevish, bogged-down" feeling. After 142 hearings in six cities (and 11,000 pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court...
Seedy Case. In Nogales, Ariz., with a juicy watermelon to take home, Police Sergeant Louis Rosas kept it from a fellow officer by carving the word "evidence...
...thing I can assure you," said Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene two years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy...
...football, but I always had Saturday matinees and couldn't get to games"). And she kept up her reading; her home bulged with books. Friends came to call-veterans of the old days on the road and admirers from the new Hollywood-and no one ever heard a word of self-pity. One evening last week she woke for a moment from a short nap, grasped her nurse's hand and asked: "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy." Then, at 79, Ethel Barrymore died...
This Is Your Life (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). This time there is no point in sticking to secrecy-better to spread the word and warm up a teen-age audience that the show has never known before. The object of M.C. Ralph Edwards' exasperating attentions: Disk Jockey Dick Clark...