Word: wrapper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday scores on style. Director Peter Tewksbury has caught Manhattan in a mood of after-the-rain freshness -and the gags are all neatly paced and frequently funny. Even the obligatory we-were-just-drying-off-in-bath-robes scene squeaks by-probably because Jane, in a plain blue wrapper, looks so honey-hued and healthy that her most smoldering invitation somehow suggests that all she really has in mind is tennis...
...great newspaper is more than a garbage can liner . . . more than a fish wrapper . . . more than a paper doll . . . more than a child's kite...
...truck pulled up to the White House, and Driver William Shaw got out with the ten free daily copies of the New York Herald Tribune that are allotted to the White House tenant. But before Shaw had a chance to drive off, a White House messenger appeared, ripped the wrapper off the bundle and tossed all ten Tribs back into the truck. "What'll I do with them?" asked Shaw. "I don't care what you do with them," said the White House man coldly, "but I don't want them around here...
...stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing Co.'s "home survival kits," containing 49 items, from canned water to playing cards. Perhaps the most ghoulish shelter article is the "burial suit," a $50 polyvinyl plastic wrapper for" anyone who dies in a shelter. It contains chemicals "to keep odors down" and can be used as a sleeping bag by the living...
Died. Duane Jones, 63, Madison Avenue's "box-top king," the master merchandiser who first made soap-wrapper premiums and box tops into sales gimmicks; of a stroke; in Norwalk, Conn. In 1952, while president of the Manhattan agency bearing his name, Jones sued nine ex-executives who had defected with his major accounts, won a landmark $300,000, which he planned to donate to the University of Pennsylvania to establish a chair in business ethics...