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Married. Betty Lawford, 44, stage and screen actress, famed as the luscious trollop who for a Broadway season languished in a foam bath in The Women; and Barry Buchanan, advertising and public relations executive; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

Ohio's Bender wanted to know how Lev came to invent the foam-rubber rims he put in his caps. The capmaker said that the answer was not for ladies to hear. Bender insisted. Lev bent over the Senator and whispered loudly: "Made out of the same stuff they make falsies of." Standing jowl to jowl with Senator Bender, Lev put on an impromptu fashion show, whipping sample hats on and off his head. Bender was curious about Lev's "social" relationship with Mrs. Mella Hort, ex-contract administrator in the Defense Department who had testified that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Mr. Lev Goes to Washington | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...clammy beach, the rustling foam...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Poetry of Moral Issues | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...preparing for the arrival of their first cadets in July, officials of the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs were up to their necks in problems of supply. Should the boys wear boxer or jockey-type shorts? Should they have foam rubber or innerspring mattresses, button or clamp suspenders, optional or compulsory washcloths? But of all the problems, none was causing more fuss last week than the design for the new cadet uniform. It all began when Secretary Harold Talbott flew into Denver six weeks ago. found himself in a huddle with Academy Superintendent Lieut. General Hubert Harmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Command Decision | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...relays for Western Electric, acetylene gas and carbide for the National Carbide division of Air Reduction Co., aircraft engines at Curtiss-Wright. Other firms, such as American Smelting & Refining, General Mills, Dunlop Tire & Rubber, have turned to automatic controls to produce everything from bronze castings to printed circuits and foam-rubber mattresses. In the oil industry, automation has advanced to the point where a handful of technicians can run an entire $40 million plant by remote control from a panel of instruments. In some of the newer refineries now under construction, there will even be controls to watch the instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Brain Builders | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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