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...door by bellhops delivering champagne and other charivarious gifts. By week's end, the Curtsingers' haul included a five-diamond wedding ring, a bridal bouquet with orchids, a Hollywood-New York round-trip flight, a week in a hotel, a set of sterling silver, a vacuum cleaner and a whirl of nightclubs and shows. In future, equally hardy couples may get trips to Paris, new cars, prefabricated houses...
Lauritz Melchior, heroic-size Metropolitan Opera tenor, arrived in Denver for a concert, sent his suit to the cleaner's, then found that his baggage had not come, had to receive the press toga-ed in a blanket...
...1/50th-inch nozzle jets a sharply focused blast of fine aluminum oxide particles at 90 pounds pressure per square inch. The jet travels at the rate of 2,000 feet per second. The particles grind the tooth while the air pressure keeps it cool. Another nozzle, on the vacuum-cleaner principle, sucks in the abrasive particles as soon as they have done their work...
...Cardinal's Bathtub. At 14 he entered Clifton College, which was noted for its "Roman stoicism and service suffused with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...
...Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co.: a cordless electric flatiron, heated while standing on a base. The base, instead of the iron, is plugged into an electric outlet...