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...golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year-old Dutch housewife, Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel, tackled the 21-mile stretch from France's Cap Gris Nez. Protected against the cold water...
...individuals who rode the gravy trains of easy prosperity will be reduced to walking the rails again." But there are plenty of opportunities; 27 million Americans still have no kitchen sinks, 18 million have no washing machines, 25 million lack vacuum cleaners, 40 million have neither bathtub nor shower. The job of supplying such needs could keep business hopping for generations...
...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...York Yankees clubbed him for seven runs in the first inning. In the press box somebody cracked that the catcher was throwing the ball back harder than Feller was throwing it in. Was the Cleveland Indians' great pitcher washed up at 30? As he plodded off to the shower, with the Yankees still at bat, Bob Feller was the droop-shouldered picture of discouragement...
...easy to knock off airplane manufacturers and other unauthorized users. After that, he will try to prove that many important electrical devices, such as the coaxial cable, grew out of his patent. If he proves these points, the millions (about $5,000,000 from the Government, he figures) will shower down. "A reasonable settlement will have to be made," says reasonable Louis Crook...