Word: seltzers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lures of all sorts have been wondrously perfected. There are plugs with small propellers, plugs with built-in batteries and small flashlight eyes, plugs with odorous oils supposedly tantalizing to fish, plugs with a hole for Seltzer tablets that leave a trail of attractive bubbles along the bottom. "At one time," said Instructor Henry Lyman, publisher of Salt Water Sportsman, "someone discovered that bluefish would strike at the shankbone of an alley cat. For years when the blues were biting, you couldn't find a live cat in town. There are even lures out now with built-in fish...
...book store (see cut) on Public Square, a news-hungry crowd rushed in, a customer cried: "Here's TIME!" and the magazine was a quick sellout. It was much the same at other downtown newsstands and neighborhood drugstores. Said the struck Cleveland Press's Editor Louis B. Seltzer: "I sat here reading the election story and found myself more and more amazed. With the speed of a daily, TIME had gotten out and distributed nationwide a story that was a model of thoroughness and accuracy...
...Alka-Seltzer & Vitamins. Last week Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson, men who had fought and made up, were together on the campaign road. Before leaving Washington, Kefauver worked on routine chores in his office and in his six-bedroom English Tudor home in fashionable Spring Valley. (Richard Nixon lives about eight blocks away, the two Nixon girls and the two youngest Kefauver girls go to the same public school, Nancy Kefauver and Pat Nixon shop in the same neighborhood stores, belong to the same P.T.A. chapter.) Kefauver also went to Farnsworth-Reed Ltd., an exclusive 17th Street custom shop, bought...
...Kefauver's hand as he boarded the Chicago-bound Capital Airlines plane was his enormous, ever-present briefcase, stuffed with all the items that long campaign experience has taught him he needs: an extra shirt (he perspires heavily), his slippers, silver-blue eyeshade, mail, vitamins, Alka-Seltzer, cigars (he chews them still unwrapped), cigarettes and a holder (to keep fit for campaigning he tried to quit smoking, failed, settled for filtertipped cigarettes puffed through a filtered holder), three or four pairs of reading and sunglasses, shaving equipment-and a fat, black contact book with all the important political names...
...Hope vehicle, the film has its points. Bob is pictured as a ne'er-do-well cartoonist and psychopathic coward who has turned to an analyst for help because Bromo Seltzer has failed him. Reduced to painting nudes on ties and landscapes on the backs of turtles, Hope is visited in his garret by a dazzling blonde (Eva Marie Saint) who used to be his wife and is now engaged to George Sanders, a moneyed comic-strip artist whose ego contains more hot air than a Turkish bath...