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...Toronto, a real estate office uses a black box to inspire sales personnel ("I love real estate. I will prospect for new listings for clients each and every day"). Says black box Inventor Hal C. Becker: "I see no reason why there won't be audio-conditioning the same way we now have air conditioning...
...last Friday hailing Thayer's invention: "The new mask was proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head and adds greatly to the confidence of the catcher, who need not feel that he is every moment in danger of life-long injury. To the ingenious inventor of this mask we are largely indebted for the excellent playing of our new catcher, who promises to excel the fine playing of those who have previously held this position...
...given the Sugar Snap a rare gold medal and pronounced it the most successful new strain it has savored in its 46 years; it has also issued a recipe leaflet (500). Suggested treatments range from creamed Sugar Snap soup to Sugar Snap tempura. Actually, says the vegetable's inventor, Gallatin's lanky. Calvin Lamborn, 45, "it's better raw than cooked...
DIED. Ida P. Rolf, 82, messianic inventor of "rolfing," a method of manipulating the body that, according to her followers, enhances physical and emotional wellbeing; of complications following surgery; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Trained as a biochemist, she spent 40 years promoting her belief that everyone has "a relationship with gravity," which can be perfected by aligning "man's [energy] field with the field of the earth." A person is properly positioned, she taught, when his ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle are lined up vertically; that posture is achieved through a painful massage technique that is today administered...
...proportion of divorced people (hence the number of boats with names like Second Life and New Beginning). At New York's 79th Street boat basin, skippers of the 80-strong year-round fleet include a drug-company officer, a masseuse, the owner of a thriving fashion firm, an inventor, a rabbi, an actress, a TV producer, advertising and insurance executives, a stock analyst, a nurse and a porno movie queen. Most started off by renting a boat for summer weekends. Then they became addicted, but kept an apartment as an anchor to windward. Then they gave...