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...Margaret Hamilton, now 62 -can pacify their inchoate neuroses and assure them that she is not in carnate evil after all. She made Oz when she was 36, and worked in Hollywood for years afterward as everybody's "cantankerous cook or acidulous aunt," in her words, "with a corset of steel and a heart of gold." Today she does character parts in the theater and on TV. Before the election, she made several appearances on NBC's That Was the Week That Was, impersonating formidable Republican ladies and the like...
Cracking a Ton. They got their answer. Strapping himself into a surgical corset, Jimmy slid gingerly into the cockpit of his rear-engined Lotus and roared around South Africa's East London race track at 100.10 m.p.h.-the first time anybody had "cracked a ton" (topped 100 m.p.h.) on the tricky, twisting track...
...already lapping stragglers. Twice, he shattered the official track record, and on the 84th lap, he zipped around the 2.4-mile course in 1 min. 27.4 sec. to break it a third time-clocking 100.33 m.p.h. Smiled Lotus Designer Colin Chapman: "He must have an itch in his corset...
Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End, on which he has worked for 21 years, he selected each brick from a yard in Aurora, added a baby shoe lovingly plucked from an ash heap in Warrenville, and topped it off with a corset that belonged to his mother. One still life required him to keep fish in the freezer for three months, taking them out for three hours a day. "As soon as they began to thaw, I would stick them back in the freezer," he explains. Title of this work? Ah God, Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering...
...their own localities. Competitors say that Straus has developed some of the best executives in retailing through Macy's training program and its habit of promoting from within. The great-grandson of one of Macy's pioneers, Straus began as a floorwalker in the women's corset department after leaving Harvard ('21). His son is now a Macy's vice president...