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...enough when they started wearing pants. It was worse when they began using Brooks Brothers as a couturier. But nothing--not even being a Radcliffe student--should allow a girl to smoke a pipe...
Western Europe's harvest was almost in. In the rolling green hills of northern Bavaria, tanned, pipe-smoking farmers loaded the last of the rutabagas onto their creaking, unpainted wooden carts. Parisian housewives clucked approvingly at stalls piled high with vegetables, meat, butter and cheese (although they gaped in dismay at the high prices). In Rome last week, delegates to a regional conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization met to assess the food situation in eleven European nations. After six days, they emerged with cheerful news: Europe's food crisis was over...
...under sleeping quilts and on the Persians themselves; hire 200 vaccinators and send them out to the villages; begin immediate instruction in elementary midwifery. At Karaj, where the old Shah wanted to build an integrated steel mill, O.C.I, recommends instead a small blast furnace and foundry to produce the pipe which Persia will need during the plan's first phases...
...Pipe & a Pint. By mixing equal parts of glamour and inoffensive blandness, Lux Theater has won a weekly audience estimated at 30 million. The devotees have heard 500 top Hollywood stars broadcasting skillfully warmed-over movie scenarios. For the anniversary, statisticians reckoned that it all added up to 650 shows, 39,120 pages of script, 14,344 musical cues and 68,460 sound effects (including an imitation of a peacock's cry* by the late George Arliss...
...only a handful of Lux's devoted audience have ever seen their idols in the flesh. To make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks...