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...sensuous, never-never-land tones made the record so popular, is now retired, but last week, at 59, she published her memoirs, recalling her surprise at Lilli's phenomenal success. To commemorate the lamplight girl's international appeal, the publishers threw a party aboard a Russian tourist steamer docked in Vienna on its way to Germany. "If I stayed aboard, I might finally get to Belgrade," observed Miss Andersen. "I've never been there...
Arguing that men are not stigmatized by having their marital status revealed by a form of address, the feminists have decided to be called Ms. (pronounced miz). In spite of all the jokes about Ms. standing for manuscript and mail steamer and master sergeant, it is fast becoming both a symbol and a fad. Ordinarily nonpolitical and conservative businesses, publications and organizations that correspond with women are having to make the big decision about whether to switch to Ms. Women's Wear Daily has, Vogue has not; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, the White House...
Sometimes known as "Steamer" because of his hot serve, Smith was drafted in December 1970; since then he has become a living testimonial to the veracity of the Army's ad. He has, for instance, developed into perhaps the nation's-if not the world's -best tennis player; and he certainly has made use of the finest playing facilities, such as center court at Wimbledon and Forest Hills...
...contains radiators, including the doors?" Hughes asked . . . "Well tell me, then, if I'm driving along and somebody in another car broadsides me, what happens?" There was an embarrassing silence. "I'd get scalded to death, right?" Hughes said . . . Without ever firing up his $550,000 super-steamer ... he ordered it junked. "Dismantle it, get some torches and cut it up into pieces," he said...
...went out one day to the California Institute of Technology and had a talk with Doctor Richard Millikan-he was President of the University and a Nobel Prizewinner -and I told him I ... wanted two real bright boys to come and work for me and to develop the Hughes Steamer ... He found two young kids, Lewis and Burns, and I told them what I wanted ... a steamer that would get up a head of steam instantly, or as close as possible, and one that would give me four to five hundred miles without having to refill the boiler...