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...vegetable-oil-based cream shampoos, bottled in jars like cold cream as substitutes for vanished liquid coconut...
...Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through...
...compared to an oldtime general store, but it is more than that. A typical exchange has a bar serving low alcoholic beer (it may not be intoxicating), juke boxes, a shooting range, a soda fountain where a soldier can buy a lunch topped off by a triple-dip ice-cream soda. Usually there are also a barbershop, cobbler's shop, a tailor to make alterations in issue clothing for the carefully dressed soldier. Last week the Exchange Service added a new feature: officer's uniforms that a new second lieutenant can buy within the range...
...Sperry Gyroscope Co. had so much skin trouble among its employes that it now urges workers in some departments to rub a protective cream on their hands before starting work...
...sophomore at the University of Southern California, Louise is studying marketing and merchandising, collects swing phonograph records, wears crimson lipstick, dotes on chocolate cookies, chocolate candy bars, chocolate ice-cream cones. She has been playing tennis only six years and still has a lot to learn. But the strokes she has mastered (particularly her American twist serve) are nearly as paralyzing as a Joe Louis punch...