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...pummeling the body; a "Mac-Levy Leg Massager" for streamlining legs and thighs; chairs called "Gyro-Lators," with vibrating cushions and foot rests to slim down hips and titillate the soles of the feet. The beauticians had a deep interest in the new machines. They needed some tasty bait to get back the business they had lost through a revolution in the trade...
...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...
...Bait. As propaganda against the 75% import tax on U.S. films, Hollywood was showing British audiences trailers of coming attractions that Britons won't be able to see. Cried a member of Parliament last week: "[The Government should] prevent this method of agitating for a change in our fiscal policy...
With Kuhn's check signed and delivered, and this current issue on the stands. Signature's editors announced a new contest today for undergraduate poets and dangled a $10 prize bait for the verse contest is March...
...Minnesota anglers held what they called the World's Original Ice Fishing Contest. At a given signal, 2,196 fishermen rushed out on frozen White Bear Lake near St. Paul, chopped holes in 28-inch ice and dropped in their bait. While 8,000 spectators watched (see cut), they fished for two hours. The winner, John Einum, got an outboard motor for catching a 5¼-lb. walleyed pike...