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...phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge for phone phonies: removing the transmitter from a bought phone (A.T. & T. sets may not legally be tampered with) and plugging it into a jack next to a regular handset. When the phone rings, the transmitterless phone can be raised without the usual telltale click to hear...
Died. Sir Frederic Collins Hooper, 71, managing director since 1948 of Britain's Schweppes Ltd. (quinine water, Bitter Lemon), a bubbly Londoner who left a successful chain store busi ness to put some fizz in the 169-year-old mixer maker, quintupled Schweppes's output and profit with snob appeal advertising featuring Commander Whitehead among the Yanks and veddy British "Schweppigrams" at home;* of a probable heart attack; in London...
More than anyone to date, Fahey conveys that sense of necessary numb ness that thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like...
...Parker Pen Co. of Janesville, Wis., is busy taking advantage of this worldwide renown with a lively spirit that belies its 75 years. It deliberately ignores national boundaries in its planning, now does two-thirds of its busi ness overseas in 156 nations. "We are a company of the world which happens to have its headquarters in the U.S.," says President Daniel Parker, 38, the grandson of Founder George Parker...
Against the Grease. Mary already has more records than any other lady marathoner, and now she has set her heart on the Sea of Galilee, Lake Geneva, Loch Ness, New Zealand's Cook Strait and, of course, the English Channel. Tall (5 ft. 91 in.) and lissome (137 Ibs.), Mary is a featherweight compared with most Channel swimmers, who pile on fat as protection against the chilly water. She spurns the traditional coating of axle grease, uses heavy-grade Vaseline instead: it is lighter, more water-repellent. And when she is in the water, her thoughts are miles away...