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...Other editors, such as Harper's Bazaar's thoughtful, tranquil Nancy White, function in an atmosphere of relative calm; not so Deeann. In her 27 years at Harper's, most of them as fashion editor, she had already established her legend as a human maelstrom. She tore in and out of offices, trailing hats, belts, secretaries and photographers behind her, churned around designers at work, doing a touch of pinning here and there, patted on makeup and cut models' hair herself. It was while she was at Harper's that she originated the now legendary...
...opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett whole heartedly agrees. "I definitely would like to be a starter," he says. "I think I can play equally well on any basis and that I'd be more effective starting." When Starter West tore a hamstring muscle last month, Barnett got his chance-and the results will make it harder than ever to keep him happy down on the bench. Against the Eastern champion Boston Celtics two weeks ago, Barnett poured in 36 points to lead his team to a 113-105 victory. Three days...
When the old Nash Motors Co. came out with seat belts as standard equipment in 1949, customers tore them out and cut them off with razor blades. Last week, as Studebaker became the first U.S. automaker now in business to make seat belts standard equipment, no one had any fear that motorists would once more lay hold of their razors. Finally convinced by safety authorities that seat belts can prevent many traffic deaths, U.S. motorists are buying them so fast that sales have risen threefold since 1960 to $63 million last year-and this year are running at double...
Last week he lingered in Australia, so in demand that he was becoming something of a local celebrity. The only man anxious to see him ship out for his next scheduled port of call, New Zealand, was his agent, who tore up their contract in despair over the low fees Buddy was asking. But then pressagents and wandering minstrels belong to different worlds...
...Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave that...