Word: seltzer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearful lest history's pudding smack too bitterly of the gall, wormwood and Bromo-Seltzer dropped into it by PM Editor Ralph Ingersoll's war report, Top Secret* (TIME, April 22), Correspondent Clifford last week began adding his own salty seasoning...
...generally took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...
...These should have been in your paper," he scolded. "You are ignoring news important to 65% of the people-and missing a good bet." As an experiment, Seltzer hired him at $35 a week. Soon, in a homely, rough-cut column called "Around the World in Cleveland," new and jawbreaking names began to appear in the Press. Known in the office either as the "Hunky" or "broken-English" editor, to whom every mustached office visitor was automatically referred, Andrica worked tirelessly to promote giant dance festivals and international exhibits (one drew 150,000 people), organized a Council for American Unity...
...Navy since 1942, had a reunion with his energetic mother, Margaret Emerson, in Hawaii. The much-married (four times) Bromo-Seltzer heiress turned up as a Red Cross field worker, found that her 32-year-old millionaire-sportsman son looked less like a playboy...
...spotted the many married couples, but highest on the list were Ann Murray and husband Bill. Not far behind were the Steins, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Seltzer-and his Mrs. seemed to be "sent" by the Alura boys. Bill Stark and friend Jim Smith liked the dance so well that they stayed until 3 A.M.-at the dance, we mean, Smitty's girl, or so sayeth D. Staff, has her eye on the current best seller, "Psychology of the Southern...