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...tested their habit, and Layne, as usual, made all the difference. Passing for two touchdowns, and running for a third, he beat the Packers 21-17. With only four games left to go (including a Thanksgiving-day rematch with the Packers), the Lions need only one more victory to sew up their third straight Western Conference championship...
Every U.S. housewife who ever tried to make a dress on an old-fashioned sewing machine knows how much trouble it was to finish it by hand, i.e., sew on buttons, work buttonholes, etc. It was not until Italy's Necchi Sewing Machine Co. invaded the U.S. market in 1948 that these problems were solved. Necchi made all these tricks possible-without special attachments-by a needle that zigzagged as it sewed. As a result, Necchi (rhymes with Becky) sold its machines so fast that the company now has more than 5% of the U.S. market...
...office politician of the know-the-other-fellow's-weakness variety, he buys the vote of Board Member Louis Calhern with the promise of a stock gift, lines up Paul Douglas (Sales) by showing how much he knows about something he shouldn't (Shelley Winters). And to sew everything up tight, March sweet-talks a proxy out of Barbara Stanwyck, who loved the dead man, although he was always too busy with the furniture to pay much attention...
When fall comes, the students will go right on with such chores. Though they will study the usual prep-school courses and get their share of skiing, riding and playing, they will also plant, sew, dig irrigation ditches, scrub floors, haul wood, tend horses, clear paths, pound nails, rake leaves, paint walls, and do any other manual labor the Holdens can think...
...Sample of the author's instructions, for preparing a 36-inch pike: Sew into the pike's belly a pound of sweet butter mixed with thyme, sweet marjoram, winter-savory, the pike's liver, pickled oysters and two or three whole anchovies, and roast over a spit, basting often with claret, anchovies and butter. When roasted to a turn, squeeze the juice of three or four oranges into the sauce in the belly...