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Cage & Chickadee. The chemist is kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...
...payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...
...this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida anyhow," hums the rich girl. "There's some alligators down there making...
...Deacons' sparkplug. Small for a basketball player, he keeps constantly under the feet of opposing giants and is too fast to be brushed off. Offensively, Pankey is one of the League's sharpest shooters. He won the first Kirkland-Lowell game with a last second 20-foot basket...
Besides scoring the basket that put the Prexies ahead, Buchanan played a good all-around game, especially under the boards. Forward Al Blackburn was high scorer for Timothy Dwight with 14 points, and Bob Mossman scored eight, mostly on set shots from the corner...