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...method for speedily dismembering hogs by slicing them up on a moving assembly line. That helped him get a $10,000 loan to open his own pork-packing plant. While still in his 20s, he built it into the largest such operation in the Eastern U.S. and sold copious quantities of meat to the federal school-lunch program...
...creators. For players, kibitzers, or even for collectors who hardly know QR3 from KB7, Chess by Hans and Siegfried Wichmann. (Crown; $15) is a comprehensive, pleasantly illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove to be both the best-illustrated and best-written...
...Glorious Fourth that Daniel Webster predicted would be celebrated "with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations, and copious, gushing tears" has come to be the day for the big ball game, the teeming beach, the crawling traffic, the long drink-in short, like every summer weekend only more so, slightly set apart perhaps by the American Legion parade and a public display of professional fireworks...
...some courses, they take copious notes; others they stop attending after the first meeting. They generally begin studying for exams late in the year, and enjoy it so much so they wish (a little) they had started earlier. Even as seniors, they have not settled on a pattern of studying, but Skip around erratically...
Wood-Notes Wild. On that morsel of plot Novelist Dundy drapes copious flimflammery about father figures and love-hate syndromes that no one could possibly take seriously. Happily, however, the pursuit of C. D. ("Seedy") McKee brings Honey Flood face to face with stately homes and Soho nightspots, London fogs and Mayfair mayhem. She finds herself at war with the whole English race. It is a form of infighting of which Elaine Dundy is plainly a well-scarred veteran. Before she is through, any true-blue U.S. reader is likely to feel that even a money-mad American would...