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...iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...
...Britain's sedate Bath, famed for its "waters," silk-bearded Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia, has long been in exile working studiously on his memoirs. By last week the memoirs were nearly finished; arrangements had been made for their publication. Suddenly Publisher Michael Joseph announced that the Emperor had been "compelled" to forego publication on orders of his "political advisers." London wiseacres nodded significantly; it would be a great embarrassment to the Government to find public opinion being whipped up for an Emperor who might at any moment be declared officially throneless...
...Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives who had crossed the U. S. and the Atlantic for no other purpose were glad to perch on a stair rail...
...Eustace Tilley this week, on the eve of his departure from the city-his 'maiden' departure, as he pointed out. The elegant old gentleman was found in his suite at the Plaza, his portmanteau packed, his mourning doves wrapped in clotted swiss, his head in a sitz bath for a last shampoo. Everywhere, scattered about the place, were grim reminders of his genteel background: a cold bottle of Tavel on the lowboy, a spray of pinks in a cut-glass bowl, an album held with a silver clasp, and his social-security card copied in needlepoint and framed...
Birthday, Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, 46; in Bath, England...