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Fans can only marvel at the N.H.L.'s escape from a longer fatality list. When professionals do battle on ice, wearing knife-edged skates, wielding sticks and shooting a piece of hard rubber around at speeds up to 120 m.p.h., the wonder is that anyone survives...
Leggers & Muggers. The crooks that merchants fear most are the professionals, many of whom work for fences and steal selectively (current high-priority target: suede coats). Store detectives never cease to marvel at the professionals' ingenuity. Some have been known to take six dresses into a fitting room, emerge wearing all of them, one over the other, and march right out of the store. Others employ such traditional equipment as the "booster box"-a gift-wrapped package with a spring-loaded trap opening-or the "Harpo Marx" coat, a shapeless, voluminous outer garment that, inside, is a marvel...
...varieties, 70-mm. Marvel filters came out with least tar (3.9 milligrams in each cigarette) and nicotine (0.12 mg.), while non-filtered, 85-mm. Chesterfields ranked tops in tar (28.6 mg.) and 13th highest in nicotine (1.54 mg.). The ten bestselling cigarettes showed the following yields, in increasing order of tar content, when smoked down to the indicated "butt length...
...qualities. Those few who wind up in a House they wanted, can feel that the strong urgings of their House Master won over the Committee's desire to cut them into eight pieces so as to make sure each House got its fair share. Surely, then, one can only marvel at the ingenuity with which the Committee on House Assignments has handled this problem...
Chicagoans paid up to $250 a seat to welcome back one of the landmark buildings of U.S. architecture. The marvel of its day, the Auditorium boasted the first central air-conditioning and heating system, the first "convertible theater" (huge ceiling panels dropped down to block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that...