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Died. Mrs. Else F. Schlemmer, petite, fiftyish, Danish-born widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Kerosene Range Sir: . . . Your March 2 article on Westinghouse's [Gwilym] Price was interesting. Betty Furness and her sales work intrigued me. One of the new items which causes her to act "as though she never heard of that old-fashioned knickknack she had plugged just the week before." is "a range which will preserve even week the newest bride from cooking disasters." I am getting married out here in June (bride also a missionary), but I'm afraid this newest item would be of little value . . . some of Betty's old, forgotten items would...
...knows, as does Westinghouse, that the only way to stay in the appliance business is to bring out something new every year. When a new product comes out, Betty immediately forgets about the product it supersedes; in fact, she acts as though she never heard of that old-fashioned knickknack she had plugged just the week before...
...doctor, Schaasberg never bothered to examine his patients. They did not even have to tell him what ailed them. From each he borrowed some personal knickknack, such as a ring or a penknife, held it in his hand, and went into a kind of trance. Soon he began to writhe in sympathetic pain. If his "gift" told him that the patient had been having headaches, Schaasberg frowned and clasped his head...
Stalag 17 (by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski; produced by José Ferrer) is an unexpectedly bright little knickknack, considering the nature of its subject and the lateness of the season. Set in a Nazi prison barracks full of U.S. airmen, toward the end of World War II, it mixes a good deal of earthy comedy with lively if commonplace melodrama. Somebody in the barracks is plainly blabbing the prisoners' small secrets to the Nazis. And when there is something really serious to blab about - when a new prisoner confides that he set a Nazi train on fire...