Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Click of Corks. The close-cropped, woolly head and the sleek white Fifth Avenue gown come from different worlds, but the combination has a charm and grace of its own. In a ballad, she maintains the clean, classic phrasing of a church singer, she can be roguish in a West Indian ditty about a naughty flea, and she can make a chilling lament of A Warrior's Retreat Song-"Jikele maweni ndiyahamba/Jikele maweni indiyahamba," which she says suggests, "We've had it, we can't make it." Memory brings back the "Back of the Moon," a black...
Vladimir F. Babbitt of Nadir, U.S.S.R., clings to status by his clean fingernails with a tenacity that makes many of his U.S. counterparts seem like beatniks by comparison. In Author Granick's "study of the organization man in Russian industry," it almost seems as if the Bolsheviks, having failed to lick the bourgeoisie, had decided to join them...
Heir to a family textiles fortune in Providence, Green went to Brown University, Harvard Law School, the Universities of Berlin and Bonn. He taught Roman law at Brown, also began working at Rhode Island Democratic politics. Elected Governor in 1933, he swept clean with a stiff broom: in a single day, he ousted five Supreme Court justices, abolished the office of finance commissioner, consolidated 80 administrative offices...
Massive, jowly, with an agreeable appearance that could help him pass for Mr. Clean's father, Schweitzer is playfully vain. Asked for his picture, he supplies one of himself at the age of one year (see cut), says: "I was bald then and I'm bald now." His dome will be familiar around WBAI for only one month, and then he will leave the station entirely to Pacifica. "I have to keep a free hand," he said last week, "so I can do new things...
...world and the companies involved reacted as if the FTC had attacked mother and apple pie. Fairfax Cone, who had a hand in creating the Pepsodent commercial and who sternly told admen three weeks ago to clean up "dishonest advertising," had a novel retort: "To me it wasn't wrong, and I think I have as high ideals as anybody around. I believe in the truth." Colgate-Palmolive announced that its shaving commercial was only "a technique used to overcome photographic difficulties," and that "sandpaper can be shaved." Standard declared that "the presence of the gems in Blue Bonnet...