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...their favorite hotel. A shrewd New York merchant snapped up brass doorknobs and key plates for resale as souvenirs. Last week, when the Ritz finally closed its doors, the hotel owners decided to auction off the furniture, rugs, mirrors, fireplaces and dishes, glassware and silver with the Ritz crest. Flashiest buyer: wealthy Texas Publisher Amon Carter, who bought the famed men's bar as a present for his son, and two elevator cages to be used as powder rooms in his Fort Worth home...
...newcomer was a similar animal (also patented) called Puppy Tu (because he eats with you) put out by Chicago's Crest Specialty Co. Crying patent infringement, Topic Toys brought suit against Crest Specialty-and won. But Crest fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court. Last week, the court reversed the judgment, held that neither Piggy nor Puppy could be patented. In so ruling, it referred to another decision which blasted the U.S. Patent Office for patenting a host of thingumabobs that add nothing "to the sum of useful knowledge." Among them: an oval toilet paper...
...cold rain spattered down last week on olive-drab U.S. Army sedans, rolling between red clay banks toward the crest of a hill overlooking the sea near Pusan. On the hilltop, white-legginged MPs signaled in front of grey stone gates. Representatives of 15 nations aiding the U.N. cause in Korea were gathering to dedicate the first permanent United Nations cemetery...
...about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
Several men were hit. Wray pushed his company to the crest of the ridge planted his light machine guns, spaced out his men. Sprawled clumsily in their parkas, they began pecking away at the Reds...