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...Steuben (rhymes with "new Ben") Glass Inc. last week showed off its 16 new designs for the fall and winter trade. Recessed into the store's grey, black and white walls, or set out on square pedestals and tables, the glassware ranged from a chubby crystal mug ($8.50) to a graceful three-tiered waterless fountain...
What apparently prompted the remake was a close resemblance between the leading character-a bigshot gangster trying to behave like a gentleman-and the proven specialty of new Star Paul Douglas, who has clicked with audiences as a gruff, goldhearted mug. But this time Actor Douglas is forced to push his appeal close to the point of diminishing returns...
...people who go to doctors suffer primarily from emotional disorders, says Dr. Ebaugh. Often a doctor can find nothing organically wrong with the patient, but is afraid that another physician may. So he hedges his report to the patient, leaving him confused and worried. Dr. Ebaugh calls this the "mug-wumping technique of trying to be right in any event...
...There are really only two kinds of people in the world," explains "The Editor." "One kind are the Mugs. The opposite of the Mugs are the Spivs-also called wide boys, smart guys, hooligans, louts or racketeers. The Mugs are the people who are some use in the world: the people who do something worthwhile for others instead of just grabbing for themselves all the time. Of course the Spivs snigger at that. They use the word Mug as an insult. 'Aren't they mugs?' they say about people who believe in living for something bigger than...
...Mug members of the Eagle Club get a special badge, must be recommended by another person ("say, a schoolteacher, club leader, and so on"). "I want to get across religious ideas indirectly," explained Editor Morris over his double whisky in the Two Brewers in London one evening last week. "I don't want to bore young readers with dull and dry preaching...