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...artificial beetles. Bug beetles, with two e's, if you please. "The Royal Family in kinky"-meaning nonconformist-"stockings at last," chirped the London Sun's Fashion Writer Jean Rook, who then swatted: "Are Margaret's new, or were they hidden away in her bottom drawer?" They cost only 6s. 11d., continued the ruthless Rook, and while they're still the rage in the U.S., the fad is waning in England. Selfridges stopped selling them a year ago -all of which goes to show that Meg's royal duties obviously leave her little time...
Miss Moloney saved the bank nearly $5900 by shoving most of the money to the back of her drawer as she handed a tray with $2700 to the bandit. She later told reporters "If I'd had something handy, I'd have smashed the smile off his face...
...first anguished twinge comes one evening when he invites Connor to the top-drawer Shore Club for the perverse I purpose of seeing him bankrupted at backgammon. Instead, Connor winds up $4,000 ahead, the well-born clubmen welsh on their losses, and Thompson begins to question himself. The answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle...
American Tobacco has had a keen taste for just such a company. Earlier last week President Robert Barney Walker announced record American sales ($1.2 billion) and earnings ($73 million). Such income swelled an already bulging cash drawer. At the same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo...
Plywood, that prosaic sandwich of wood and glue, was long a low-prestige commodity used chiefly in such things as panel doors, ping-pong tables and bureau-drawer bottoms. No longer. Glamorized almost beyond recognition, it has taken on fancy surfaces, been merged with other materials and found its way into such diverse places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record...