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...gardener, and that antique dealer who -but, of course! Now he begins to see, or thinks he sees, the guile in her innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls, has her followed, even fakes a business trip and sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks his wife's virtue as though it were big game is apt to bag peace of mind along...
...vast bulk of blanket sales is still in the cheap (under $5) rayon blends, which tend to shrink and wear badly. But in the quality field, thermals are the up-and-coming item. This year 7,500,000 thermals will be sold, as compared with 400,000 wools, 5,500,000 electrics and 5,000,000 acrylics. Most blanket-makers now produce thermals ranging in price from $3.99 to $20. They would much rather not. But three years ago a bedspread manufacturer, Morgan-Jones, put the first cotton thermal into U.S. stores. With little advertising except by word of mouth...
...find the popularity of the thermal a bit of a mystery," says Chatham blanket company Executive Director G. Martin Coffyn. "Every warmth test we give it by itself registers zero. The labels say that in winter you need a light covering. That can mean anything from a sheet to a Hudson's Bay blanket." So covered, the blanket admittedly holds more warmth than a sheet or a Hudson's Bay alone would-but not much more, say its critics. There has been no great public outcry from chilled users, and the blankets continue to go like hot cakes...
...knows? Soon Linus may order a thermal to use as his security blanket...
American railroads are still a long way from consolidating into two or three giant lines that would blanket the nation, but the trend is clearly in that direction. There have been 35 rail mergers since 1957, and a dozen mergers are now pending. Last week the Chicago & North Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific, which have been eying each other ever since 1939, finally decided that one can live more cheaply than two. The estimated saving from sharing their facilities and eliminating duplicating service: about $40 million annually...