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...glass blowing: Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show, Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane, Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts the best rest rooms of all, with a diaper-changing room for harried mothers...
...circus poster, a shaving mug, a spinning wheel or an ornate mailbox, a collection of cast-iron toys or a bridal bouquet under glass. Many once worthless objects, such as Victorian dolls and samplers, brass coal scuttles and decorated washbasins, are greeted with glad, excited cries of discovery. A cigar-store Indian in good condition-if you can find one-fetches up to $1,500 today...
Helium Quack. Oceanologists, meanwhile, have not been idly waiting around for the Aluminaut to show up. This summer, in waters off Bermuda, the U.S. Navy has carried out an experiment in underwater living. For nine days last month four U.S. aquanauts lived in a cigar-shaped, 40-ft.-long contraption named Sealab 1, resting in the coral-covered crater of an extinct volcano 192 ft. below the surface. The experiment proved that aquanauts could live and work for long periods of time hundreds of feet below the surface, thus eliminating the need for repeated and lengthy decompressions and making practical...
Bauer, naturally, did not get along with Finley. Nobody does. A cigar-chewing Chicago insurance man who made $10 million at his trade, Finley runs his ball club like a child playing with a Roger Maris Baseball Game. He battles constantly with sportswriters, rival owners, league officials. And he discards managers the way women throw away hats...
Married. Edie Adams, 35, kittenish nightclub comedienne and cinemactress, widow of the late cigar-chomping Ernie Kovacs; and Marty Mills, 37, Manhattan music publisher; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...