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...Colgate soap, were retailed as a "package" for 89?. Results were so spectacular that they caught the eye of Chicago's famed advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker (Lord & Thomas), who owned the Pepsodent Co., and a gloomy balance sheet. From a distance, Luckman looked like the man to fix this. Closeup, he looked entirely too young. Calmly Luckman lied to Lasker about his age: he said he was 30, instead of 26. Lasker hired him as salesmanager, at $10,000 a year...
Would Perón also save from devouring inflation those few hundred pesos socked away at the postal-savings bank? Guillermo had an answer for his father: "Perón will fix everything...
...Herald reporter (at $34.79 a week, the Newspaper Guild scale for beginners), Phoebe Hearst gets up early, drives to work (at 7:30 a.m.) in her Buick convertible coupe, gets half an hour for lunch, tries hard to please everybody. Her grandfather said he could fix it with the city editor to give her easier hours, but she said no. "I'm learning a different side of life," said the fledgling Hearstling last week, "and meeting some strange people-interesting in their own little...
...Wonderful." By week's end the new life had become pleasant routine. Mrs. Isabella B. Luckenbach, wife of a lieutenant colonel in Berlin, glowed with approval of her big, ten-room house in suburban Dahlem. Said she: "Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...
...casting of "Around the World" is the most fortunate element in it. From the dancers (incidentally the most beautiful and the mot daring of this and probably any recent season) through Julie Warren and Mary Healy as the female leads to Alan (Falstaff) Reed as fix and Larry Laurence as Fogg's valet, Passport out, the east performs with unusual freshness, gaiety, and enjoyment...