Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gerald Scarfe's TV commercial sculpture was excellent. However, Scarfe failed to capture the major aspect of TV commercials. Emerging from the center of the TV set there should have been one colossal-sized hand-palm...
...Europe, they seem to manage this somewhat more gracefully than Americans do. My friend Gloria Guinness, who is married to Loel of the banking (not brewing) Guinnesses, claims that it's easier to maintain four houses than one. Her four are in Paris, Normandy, Switzerland and Palm Beach, and she keeps a skeleton staff of servants and a complete wardrobe in each house so that she and Loel don't have to tote stuff around. "Without luggage," she says, "you don't have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually...
...assorted blood aerations, breast shapings, or skin peelings. These cosmetic Sayings leave a woman pretty unsightly for a week or so. So Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post (you know, Post Toasties) Close Hutton Davies May solves the problem by inviting her doctor and three of her friends down to Palm Beach for a peeling, so they can hole up in her 115-room villa and play bridge while the scabs slough...
...around the suburb of Scarborough and bear varying degrees of likeness to Ray. In July 1967, Ray took the name of Warehouse Supervisor Eric St. Vincent Gait, 54, whose signature he had apparently misread as Eric Starvo Gait. As does Ray, Gait has scars on his forehead and right palm and could pass for 40, Ray's age. John Willard, 42, the name used by the man who rented the room in Memphis 13 paces away from the bathroom where King's assassin hid, is an insurance adjuster who is shorter and slighter than...
Died. Sanford L. Cluett, 93, textile man, whose Sanforizing process (coined from his first name) thrust the world into the Non-Shrink Age; in Palm Beach, Fla. As a vice president of the family-founded Cluett, Peabody & Co. (Arrow shirts), Cluett in 1928 determined to find a way of counteracting the pull exerted by mill machines during weaving, which stretches fibers only to have them shrink back again after washing; his process which contracts and preshrinks the cloth, has been lauded as the most significant textile discovery since the advent of fast dyes...