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Slim & Slick. Manhattan's L. E. Waterman Co. began marketing a ball-point pen with a retractable sapphire tip. Slimmer that a conventional pen, it weighs less than an ounce. Waterman claims that the polished sapphire point is "the smoothest writing instrument ever developed." Price...
...receive them in a sweater, and he served them nothing but sandwiches and plain water. His formula for giving a party-"Why go to the expense of serving them champagne, when they'll come anyway?"-was as cynical as his formula for success: "I paint the women slimmer than they are and their jewels fatter...
...doorbell ringers trudged into the last few days of electioneering, public opinion polls showed the Tories still ahead, but the gap was narrowing fast. Conservatives who last month hopefully predicted a 100-seat majority in the new House of Commons now talked grimly of squeaking into power with a slimmer, 20-to-50 majority...
...Geddes shines and twinkles with an authentic radiance. Her give & take with Co-Stars Donald Cook and Barry Nelson is sharp, sure, and exquisitely timed. Her poise is unshakable. In 1941, when she first appeared on Broadway, critics had called Barbara a "plump" and "promising" ingenue. Now, trimmer, slimmer, and thoroughly resourceful on the stage, she is an accomplished, soundly competent performer...
...lobby fouled by manure from horses stabled there by the enemy. The Communists had made no preparation for a street fight. There were no sandbag barricades, no new pillboxes, rifle pits or foxholes. But the retreating Reds had looted the city again, although this time the pickings were slimmer. Tables and desks had been taken out of official buildings-but the "In," "Out," and "Hold" baskets had been left in the Eighth Army's onetime headquarters at Seoul University. Twenty-eight mattresses, evidently piled up for removal, had been left behind...