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...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...
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...
...overall result often seemed too much like an M-G-M sound track. Choruses by Gilbert and Sullivan showed the Glee Club to best advantage. The all-important diction was perfectly clear and the piano accompaniment of Lawrence Berman '56 and William Lindahl '55 added to the zest of the singing...
...list of new products: Lana, a home permanent for bleached or frizzled hair; Fluffo, a new shortening to compete with P. & G.'s famed Crisco; Gleem, a new toothpaste "for people who can't brush after every meal" (P. & G. is sure that includes just about everybody); Zest, a detergent bar for baths and showers...
SOAPMAKERS are working themselves into a new competitive lather. Their latest product: all-detergent soap bars. Procter & Gamble's "Zest" is already being test-marketed, as is Colgate's "Charmis"; Lever Bros, is reported to be rushing a detergent bar of its own into production. The big ad froth will come next year...