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...Salvaged an inertial guidance system that North American had been working on since 1950 for a fighter plane (the system has yet to go into a fighter, but its kissing-cousin now guides Polaris subs...
...improved upon Brummell's styles; collars, stiff with whalebone, rose above the ears, cravats required pounds of starch, and coats became bosomy with padding. French aristocrats, in a wave of Anglophilia, embraced the fad-although, the author notes, they confused the thin-wristed dandy with his county cousin, the fox-hunting buck...
...crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts...
...high platform: "We are Aristotelian in the true sense; we entertain while we instruct. We slip the message in between the laughs. Our target is pomposity." Chicagoans like both the laughs and the message; the group's sharp entertainment goes far toward relieving Chicago's country-cousin complex as the U.S.'s second city. Even the Tribune praised the show for its "sparkle and sauciness, speed and irreverence." Oedipus Revisited. If the Second City comedians have a trademark, it is "The Living Newspaper," a flexible skit touched off by items in the press. When discoveries of police...
Wearing a crown of flowers, the British royal family's pretty Princess Alexandra, 23, daughter of the Duchess of Kent and cousin of the Queen, brought a touch of early spring to a wintry landscape as she rode to a luncheon given by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London...