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Alcatraz screws, tipped off, found that Green and at least two other convicts had hidden escape tools in compartments chipped in the bottom of toilet basins. Among the tools, all fashioned from materials in the prison workshops: a blowtorch made from a large grease cup, a brace and bit from pipe parts. Remarking on the careful preparation, Bennett recalled Green's earnest promise of two years before. "All the time he was talking to me," said Bennett, "he was probably planning his next blast-out attempt...
...covered toilet seats ($200 for ermine), imported opium bowls of hammered brass ($250), hairbrushes that cost more than $200, and a child's battery-operated Mercedes-Benz for only $400 were all on sale last week along swank Rodeo Drive in California's Beverly Hills. But the most symbolic luxury item that is putting the bloom on the Hollywood boom is the mink-covered TV set ($950). TV has become the star of a new Hollywood, and the movies merely a supporting player. Items: ¶A single Hollywood TV show, NBC's daily Matinee Theater, hires...
...more and better machines. Corporations do up their prices, but trade-ins and retail discounts partly make up for the list-price increases. As a result, actual retail prices of goods average about the same now as four years ago. Some items are up, e.g., new cars and toilet articles, but others are down, e.g., furniture and toys. But non-goods prices are all up: laundry, 11%; rent, 12%; haircuts, 14%; transit fares, 20%; movie admissions, 20%; TV repairs, 25%. Non-goods are the "real villains" of the inflation story...
Britain's economizing Earl of Harewood, 34, eleventh in succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...
...life, the Rovensky mansion, with its deep-sunk. 6½-ft. marble tub serviced with brass swans' neck faucets and the 27-piece George I silver toilet service, is already as surely a thing of the past as the stately English homes for which the objects were first fashioned. Gone is the era in which the lady of the mansion and her good friend Grace Vanderbilt, who lived across 86th Street, would be chauffeured around the block to visit (because a lady went no farther than from her door to the curb on foot...