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...Chino Sta-Prest...
...ownerships have proved that they can compete with and outdo the Goliaths by concentrating on specialty products. San Francisco's family-owned Levi Strauss & Co., the behemoth of blue jeans, has a new wrinkle-or, rather, an unwrinkle. It has just begun worldwide marketing of hot-selling "Sta-Prest" pants, which are treated with resin, then baked in 325° ovens until they have a permanent crease...
...water after two hours. Two men finally made it: Phil Rising, 41, an English watchmaker, and Abdel Latis Abou Heif, 22, an Egyptian student. Next day Ned Barnie, 54, a science teacher in Edinburgh, became the fourth man in history to swim the Channel in both directions. ¶ Lloyd Prest is a hot (mid 70s) golfer in southern Australia; Mick O'Donnell shoots in the high 90s. Over a drink, Prest bet he could beat O'Donnell using a pickax handle. He did, 95-107. ¶ In the National League, Outfielder Clyde Vollmer was no great shakes...
...baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that "this is I"; But as he grows he gathers much And learns the use of "I" and "me". . . . Apparently we have arrived at a point where it is not necessary for the baby or anyone else to learn the difference between the nominative and accusative cases. ... Is this perhaps a Churchillian bit of undress in order to gain the approval of the masses? . . . Perhaps Churchill's "me" does even include...
Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...