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...nonsensical events: a minister (Robert Preston), disguised as a jewel thief and accompanied by a hotel chambermaid (Eileen Heckart). coaxes an invalided gentlewoman (Glynis Johns) into letting him sell her pearls and kidnap her for ransom. The trio lives it up globally on the loot before coming to rest in a desert outpost of empire where a bean-brained colonel (Cyril Ritchard) and a versatile private (David Wayne) in Bedouin regalia, a la T. E. Lawrence, dizzily keep the pax Britannica...
...automatic production. The watch they produced is so uncomplicated that its works are mounted between two plates instead of a network of five as on other models, and have only four screws v. 31 in other watches. Timex's simplicity gives it amazing shockproof qualities, but most jewelers agree that, with its metal bearings, Timex will not keep time as faithfully as an expensive jewel-bearing watch. Lehmkuhl retorts that a Timex should run five years without cleaning, but U.S. Time has tacitly admitted that there is some ground for criticism by recently dropping two of its Armalloy metal...
Sparkling Jewel. Pickering gave lots of rope, but no one got entangled in it, and the first Mariner was produced on schedule. It was a strange and beautiful object, worthy to be displayed like expensive jewelry against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner...
...chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is to the Broadway musical comedy scene what Switzerland is to watchmaking. The mainspring in this jewel of precision is beguileful Robert Morse...