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...upon a time (c. 1910) there was an inventor named Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke). He and his two children-apparently spawned by autogenesis, since there is no mention of a mother-live with their potty Grandpa (Lionel Jeffries) and a bunch of malfunctioning machines, ingeniously designed by Rowland Emett. Like the man who invented five-up and six-up and then gave up, Caractacus falls just short of greatness. His vacuum cleaner not only cleans the rug, it swallows it. His color television set just broadcasts wobbles. His Icarus act fizzles when the rockets tied to his back...
Question of Numbers. When the retrial opened in Miami Federal District Court last month, Dr. Hastings had hopes of winning the first damage verdict in the history of the tobacco-cancer controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large...
Said Green: he had smoked Lucky Strikes for 25 to 30 years, usually two packs a day, but sometimes up to three packs. On suits against the American Tobacco Co. by Green's estate and his widow Mary, totaling $1,500,000. Judge Emett C. Choate charged the jury to answer a series of dependent questions...
...spun by a Stakhanovite spider. One-and two-car trains jog across the countryside as leisurely and erratically as the village gossip on her daily rounds. Except on the crack trains, cars are dirty, creaky, ramshackle and old, though also comfortable in a musty, antimacassar way. Cartoonist Rowland Emett has epitomized both Britain's love and loathing in Punch's "FarTwittering and Oysterperch Railway." But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war. When the railroads were nationalized by the Socialists in 1948, the equipment was overaged, the labor force (at the unions' insistence) oversized...
...simple cartoonlike models, such as trains reminiscent of Cartoonist Rowland Emett's famed rickety railways in Punch; and "Sky," in which a pair of crescent moons dance around a corona-circled sun and lesser heavenly bodies ($3.95 each, produced by Pace Design Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking...