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...crime is a woman. Ehrlich's brother Jake, whose San Francisco case histories were the raw material for television's Sam Benedict series, argues exactly the opposite. When a trim little old lady turns up in court with every white hair in place, dressed in a powder-blue suit, says Jake, "I want her on that jury. She knows there's no such thing as rape." But Jake Ehrlich admits that jury picking is basically a risky proposition. "It's like picking a wife," he says. "You don't know where you're going...
Cosmetic-conscious women have dutifully painted their lips vermilion one season, chalk white the next, applied pancake, powder and rouge with abandon (when Vogue endorsed The Ruddy Look), cut down on foundation bases (when Harper's Bazaar approved of Naked Cheeks). Hair styles have changed so often during the past ten years that even the beauty business began to grow bored with it all, threw in the sponge and recommended wigs. But that was last year's news. This year the eyes have...
...issue is Xerox's domination of the dry-copying field (no messy, discoloring chemicals), the fastest-growing and most profitable part of the industry. Since Xerox came on the market in 1960 with its 914 model, which makes copies by dissipating an electrically charged powder onto ordinary paper, three other companies-SCM, Addressograph's Bruning division, and American Photocopy-have entered the field. The competitors' machines make copies on paper precoated with zinc oxide, a dry photoconductive chemical...
...proper girls' school in the south of England. They carried on like so many Peck's bad boys in bloomers, planted a gelignite bomb in a bicycle shed, conned free rides in horse-drawn victorias, raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message in an unknown language (jumboed up by Mumbo)-in the orchard behind the school. As snippety...
Died. Frank Cleary Hanighen, 64, journalist who in 1934 with H. C. Engelbrecht wrote Merchants of Death, an exposé of World War I munition cartels that helped spark the 1934-36 Senate investigation into war profiteering, provided powder for isolationists; of a heart attack; in Washington...