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...Face-Saver. In St. Jean La Joterie, France, missing for almost a month, Farmer François Marchand turned up well and cheerful at his home, told distressed relatives that he had been in the loft of his barn all the time: "I wanted to grow a beard in private...
...Step Saver. A right-hand-drive Jeep, the first such car to be made in the U.S. in 30 years, was produced by Willys Motors, Inc. It will be used by rural and suburban postmen for easy delivery to roadside mailboxes...
...String Saver. As part of the anniversary celebration, the Ford family also formally opened to historians an amazing collection of personal possessions which Old Henry had gathered at Fair Lane, his huge, grey stone mansion, not far from the Rouge plant. After Mrs. Ford died in 1950, the family sent a crew of archivists to look through the memorabilia stored there. They were astounded by what they found. Some of the 55 rooms in the mansion were so crammed with clocks, rare books, cameras, music boxes, files, unpublished photographs and crates of papers that the doors could hardly be opened...
...Life-Saver...
Died. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 74, author, longtime Columbia University professor (philosophy, psychology, journalism), apostle of self-improvement and professional time-saver ("Never open second-class mail"), who added a phrase to the language when he wrote, at 54, his bestselling Life Begins at Forty; of a heart attack; in Los Altos, Calif...