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...call, the 42nd annual National Motor Boat Show was opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, and the first of some 250,000 sailors and would-be sailors were "piped aboard." Biggest news at the show this year are mass-produced, prefabricated "kit-boats," which an amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram by Roberts Industries ($35) and an 18-ft. outboard cruiser...
...woman ever finds anything in her purse. Usually she doesn't. This isn't a point of pride among the fairer sex, but a lack of something better. Now something better is here, and BIGELOW KENNARD at 384 Boylston Street has it. It is a small kit that keeps lipstick, cologne, and other feminine vanities together and apart from the rest of sacred contents of her bag. The small handsome kit can be carried separately as well. Price...
...first prize for painting (a $100 defense bond and a painting kit) went to Private Paul Calle, 23, a onetime commercial artist from Manhattan, for his somber study of a little girl in a tenement doorway. Private Calle painted it "because I was confused when I first went into the service," and the painting, drawn from memories of a Lower East Side childhood, "expressed my feeling of confusion...
...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...
Utopia in Reverse. Chou and his comrades are serving the interests of the Chinese people in their own fashion. They are trying with every tool in their revolutionary kit to destroy China's traditional society, replace it with a new structure that is horrifyingly like the utopia-in-reverse of George Orwell's 1984. Chief among traditions under all-out Red attack is China's revered institution, the family. China's Reds by their own admission have bent all their efforts to turn father against son, mother against daughter. Wives are being handsomely rewarded for informing...