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...Everything Right." In the first of the two games last week, Rollins proved that he was worth the votes. He was the only American League standout in a contest that saw Willie Mays cover centerfield like a vacuum cleaner, Maury Wills steal everything except the Scoreboard, the National League win 3-1. But in a losing cause, Rollins handled three hot shots to third flawlessly, and shut off a National League rally with a one-hand grab of Tommy Davis' ripping sixth-inning grounder. At bat, he was the only American Leaguer to reach base twice, scored his team...
...player piano [TIME, June 22] that seemed beyond repair. She gave it to my father for his birthday and wished him luck. With the help of cut-up babies' rubber pants for the bellows, new felt for the key backings, and an old vacuum cleaner for self-pumping, we now have a fully automated intune player piano...
Unlike a human scalp, a wig's base produces no natural oil. Thus a dry cleaner can do every six weeks what a hairdresser has to do once a week; and best of all, only the hair sits under the dryer. Still, $250 is a fairly stiff price (really fine custom wigs can cost as much as $1,500) and at first wig-wearers consisted mostly of actresses, among them Shirley Booth, Judy Holliday. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost nine of her twelve wigs in last year's Bel Air fire...
...spending twice as much on advertising as Germans normally do. Konrad Henkel, who shares control of his company with eleven relatives, believes he can offset U.S. advertising with German science, is steadily automating his plants, and has his chemists working with textile makers to develop fibers that will get cleaner quicker with Henkel detergents...
Such popularity is indeed deserved: syndets do the job better. They dissolve the greasiest grease and dirtiest dirt, leave no scum behind, make clothes cleaner and cutlery more coruscating. But the result of all this cleanliness is a mountain of foam. Most of it is created by the high-sudsing detergents used for household work or washing dishes in the sink. Such detergents sometimes cause foam to back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time...