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This gift has an all day use. In the evening for parties, it pops corn. In the morning, it poaches eggs. It can also boil tea, cook soup, and keep hot buttered rum and toddies warm. This only suggests its manifold uses--heating the baby's bottle is another--which will come to the resourceful recipient. Regularly priced at $6.75, it is going for $5.75 at Bay State...
Tory quarrels with Labor on foreign policy boil down to the claim that Eden would be a more efficient Foreign Secretary. Says one Tory: "The process has always had three stages. The first is a statement by Mr. Churchill of the necessary course to take, the second a denunciation by the Prime Minister of Mr. Churchill's ideas as puerile, the third the adoption of Mr. Churchill's ideas by the government...
...Barbara and Franchot returned. Tone offered to throw Neal out. They went outside. Neal (180 Ibs.) said he tried to reason with Tone (155 Ibs.). Barbara fluttered out. "She runs up to Tone," said Neal, "and kisses him-but big. That's when the old adrenalin began to boil. I saw the good...
After that it was up to Savitt and Seixas, if the fans were to see a real battle. But Savitt was playing against heavy odds. Early in the tournament a boil had developed back of his left knee. Stiff-legged and slow, he had bulled his way along, pulling out a punishing five-set match from Budge Patty in the quarter-final by dogged courage as much as by his court tactics. The infection had to be lanced two hours before his match with Seixas...
...hauled 35,000 feet into the cold, thin air over the Mojave. Test Pilot Bill Bridgeman was gunning for an altitude where the outside air temperature is 67° F. below zero and the pressure low enough to make a man's blood boil; though the little plane's cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned, Bridgeman wore a specially designed pressure-suit with a helmet like a deep-sea diver's. A tiny windshield wiper cleared the face plate of the condensed moisture from his breath...