Wrigley has filed a worldwide patent for the first non-stick chewing gum. The innovation is of no little significance.
Toddlers get it in their hair.
School-age children get it on their jeans and dresses when they cross their legs beneath a desk after changing classes. Career people debate which is worse exposed in a meeting with the boss, bad breath or gummy soles. In the twilight of life, chewing gum, mercifully, requires a minimum of just two teeth, but too frequently tumbles forgotten until it's time to wash the sheets. For one thing, laboratory work apparently has yet to provide assurances that the new polyester-based, biodegradable gum will be indistinguishable in taste from the Juicy Fruit and Spearmint of today. Also, like the National Rifle Association or the Tobacco Council, there is much hesitancy to concede that a serious problem exists.