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...deft, competent performance produced no sensational headlines; yet it added to the image of strength created since he succeeded the late John Foster Dulles a year ago. Lacking the self-assertive flair of Dulles or of Harry Truman's Secretary Dean Acheson, Secretary Herter sometimes seemed to blend invisibly with the antiseptic corridors of the State Department. But despite his self-effacing manner, Herter's certainty of purpose has won growing respect from President Eisenhower, State Department aides and the capital's most critical press corps...
...developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself the embodiment of bon ton in London society. From 1800 until he fled England to escape creditors in 1816, "his dictates were obeyed in all the great issues of existence: the curve of a brim, the blend of a snuff, the turn of a phrase, the ways to pass those long boring years when wars were being fought, laws were being debated, history was being made...
Lest anyone have any doubts that her East-West blend can stand comparison with Hollywood's well-known brands, company flacks have already hastened to announce that under her high-buttoned cheongsam (the Chinese sheath with the slit skirt), she is the equal of any Occidental. But Nancy promptly corrected the claim that she has "the ample bosom of the Nordics." Said she demurely: "It is big for the Chinese, enough for the English, maybe small for Italians...
...Camel people got a look at their first dromedary, Old Joe. Old Joe was promptly photographed, drawn for the package. (When Reynolds tried to change the package slightly in 1958, it got so many complaints that it had to switch back to the old one.) Camels, with their stronger blend, revolutionized the cigarette market before Dick Reynolds died in 1918. Camel sales jumped from $10 million in 1913 to $188 million in 1918, and the company took over from American as the industry's leader. During World War I, Reynolds made sure that soldiers in the trenches had plenty...
...seen filters coming was Darr, who was impressed by their popularity in Switzerland during a vacation. But the man who decided when to roll was Gray. Reynolds' test panel had smoked 250 versions of the trial Winston over two years when Gray took a puff of a new blend numbered 736 one day in 1954. Cried he: "This is it! Let's go all out for it." The company did?and Winston took over leadership among the filters in 1955. Reynolds followed up its victory by introducing the mentholated Salem, timing it just right to hit the growing demand...