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Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. built its first control in 1885-a "damper flapper" for coal-furnace flues. In the space age, 44 of the 54 U.S. satellites have used its guidance controls...
...newsman (Robert Sterling) buys a small New England newspaper from owner Ichabod (George Chandler) Adams. The town is peopled by rounded, well-realized, three-dimensional clichés with names like Widow Ruskin and Cousin Martin, played by actors steeped in basic quaintsmanship. From ABC's Margie (1920s flapper) to CBS's Father of the Bride, the other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears...
...news from Paris last week, as French high-fashion designers called the coming season's styles, was shape. Last winter's flapper rage, the short, unfitted boop-a-doop look, had been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles...
Alone in a Nest. Now Dorothy has left the fellahin class, and at roughly $1,000 a week is a member of Hollywood's petite bourgeoisie. At 26 (Warner's wants her to say 24), she is a solemn sort of flapper. She can imitate a drum, a trombone or a sea lion brilliantly, 'but just as often she imitates Joseph Alsop, brooding fitfully about life and Laos ("The world's problems bother me"). Although she is more than a starlet-Hollywood has no word for a young actress who is steadily but not spectacularly employed...
...detailed to mass-produce for spring sale in the U.S. Ricci, who introduced a "firecracker" silhouette, raised eyebrows with clutch-dresses without buttons down the shirt front, requiring two hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York's Suzy Perette, "because the American woman has grown. You have...