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...Felipe also spent 14 of his years in the U.S. waiting for the hand of Courtney Letts, a tall, dark-haired, slender member of Chicago's onetime "Big Four" of socialite beauties. Don Felipe first courted her in the '20s, but she married two wealthy Americans first. Finally, three weeks after her second divorce, Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden became Senora de Espil, who in turn became one of the world's ten best-dressed women, and an able diplomat herself...
Westinghouse has solved a delicate problem in electronic tube-making. A steel splinter used to be thrust into each tiny coiled filament for support while it was welded. But removing the steel support afterward was difficult. Now a slender stick of raw spaghetti, turned out to a thousandth-of-an-inch accuracy, takes the steel's place. After the coil is welded, an electric current burns up the spaghetti core in a flash. For this ingenious idea, which cuts filament-assembly time from five minutes to one, Westinghouse Engineer William A. Hayes got a WPB award of Individual Production...
...contemporaries remember him as a slender, dark, fiery-eyed youngster who rode beautifully, could do anything with his hands and did nothing with his mind. Also he stuttered. Some of his classmates admired his dash. Others, of the sober sort, considered him thoroughly worthless. They made a play on his name: Tear-around-the-mess-hall Allen...
These straws were slender, inconclusive. The full effect of the tax cannot be computed for some months. But the drift is plain. The fat pocketbooks of the U.S. are as yet unaffected...
...during a peaceful Vermont summer, weighed 12 lb. (or more) at birth. He grew up in a snug, warm household, and his roly-poly build helped him withstand the buffetings of the weather. According to Dr. Petersen, the "broad type" is less upset by extremes of climate than the slender type because it is better "buffered" and presents a smaller surface to the elements. But because stocky people are less toughened by the world, they crack up more readily after 40, usually die younger than thin people. Douglas, true to form, was a U.S. Senator at 34, dead...