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...been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness,' he is reputed to travel with...
Porters will put up at the Ritz. From Paris he plans to motor to Rome and, naturally, on to Venice. From Italy he will fly to Athens. Then he will take a yacht-already chartered-and trace a lazy course among the sunny Greek islands of the Aegean...
...more complicated problems as he begins to get older. He has to worry about his "functional age." Last week Psychologist Ross A. McFarland of Harvard's School of Public Health told the Gerontological Society in Manhattan that a pilot is as old as his vision, or his "motor skill," or his general ability to adjust to the demands of his job. No exact age limit should be set for pilot retirement, McFarland said, but life in the sky certainly does not begin...
OLDSMOBILE'S big talking point is under the hood of the "Futuramic 98" Series: the V-8 "Rocket" engine, with a 7.25-to-1 compression ratio.* This gives it 135 h.p. while using less gas than the old 115-h.p. motor. It can be stepped up to a 12-to-1 ratio-with increased horsepower and lower gas consumption-whenever the higher octane fuel it requires is available at gas stations...
...electrical engineer. He sped through a four-year course at Carnegie Tech in three years, and at 18 went to work for Westinghouse Electric Corp., at 18? an hour. By the time he was 22, he had married (on $80 a month) and had designed Westinghouse's first motor for auto starters...