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...Frank Slicker Moran is a hearty, massive, melodious-voiced realestate broker who auctions whole villages-the little towns of western Pennsylvania that have been left to wither by the bankrupt or transient industries that built them. A former International League baseball umpire, Realtor Moran got his idea nine years ago while recuperating from an internal hemorrhage. "I think," says he, "that I've sold more towns than anybody else in the U. S." Last week he sold his eighth: Pattontown, Pa., a scraggly Westmoreland County hamlet of seven farms, 28 houses, a mercantile building...
...field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet. R. C. A. says that any bright person can learn to get good results with it in an hour. Last week R. C. A. was ready to market the new model to research institutions. Price: $9,500 an instrument...
...drag, but not too many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...
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...YOUR BRIEF REFERENCE TO ME AS "SCARLET-FACED SWAMPLANDS SLICKER" AT CHICAGO. I WISH IN THE INTEREST OF ACCURACY TO SAY: MY BIRTH AND HABITAT ARE ON THE PINEYWOODS DRY SAND-LANDS OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A MAN AS HOMELY AS I AM CALLED A SLICKER. YOUR LAST REFERENCE TO ME WAS AS A "BACKWOODS NOEL COWARD." THE BACKWOODS IS ACCURATE...