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Married. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, 53, pipe-chewing Hollywood director most recently involved with Cleopatra; and Rosemary Matthews, 33, a production assistant on the Cleo set; he for the third time; in Manhattan...
...playing the match game next door at Bleeck's, which in those days was noted for its good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...
...testing the most sensitive leak seeker yet, a device that does its sniffing by sound. The Illinois scientists discovered that if sound waves of 40 cycles per second (a frequency just above the piano's middle G) are fed into a gas main, they will travel down the pipe, escaping along with the leaking...
...escaping sound is extremely weak, but while microphones set on the ground are checking a suspected pipe, a portable radio transmitter broadcasts a tone of the same frequency as the test note. An automatic electronic device compares the transmitted sound with sound picked up by the microphones. If the sound coming out of the ground proves to contain a significant amount of the tracer frequency, it cannot be blamed on leaking water or distant traffic or any other background noise. It can come from nothing but a nearby leak in the sound-filled gas pipe...
...year, you know.") He personally edits each entry in the Bean mail-order catalogue, and his spare, disarming style has been used in advertising textbooks as exemplary of what direct-mail selling should be. Sample: "Most hunters and fishermen smoke. For a long time we searched for an outstanding pipe. This pipe is the result...