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Marriage Revealed. Henry Jacques Gaisman, 82, wealthy inventor (swivel chairs, razors, men's belts) and retired chairman of the board (since 1938) of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; and his former nurse, Catherine Vance, 33; both for the first time; last month, in Hartsdale...
From a distance, the big A-cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...
They plunked him in a leather-covered swivel chair, snapped pictures and hammered him with questions while they called the police. Even after the cops arrived, Rodriguez stuck to his story that he had not killed the girl. When the cops stepped out of the room to decide what to do, Reporter Keyes supplied the answer. "Why don't you tell the truth, Roman?" he said to Rodriguez. "No jury will ever believe what you've told us . . ." "All right," Rodriguez answered, "I'll tell you the truth. I killed her." When the cops came back...
...starter tapped her on the back, she was off, pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
...past years, CRIMSON business representatives have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of freshman radiators without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, there is a chance for freshmen, sophomore, and junior latent extroverts to develop under personal tutelage of the fastest talking gray flannels in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening at 7-30 tonight offers everyone a gift for gab which can come in handy along other than journalistic lines...