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...Underwear & Hair Tonic. In a nation where a change of a royal hairdo is news, covering the royal family is often the world's most frustrating assignment. Only two reporters are accredited to Buckingham Palace, representatives of the Press Association and Exchange Telegraph wire services. They act as little more than messengers, daily picking up carefully prepared handouts from the Queen's press secretary, Commander Richard Colville. A Scot whose titled family has long served in the royal household, Colville joined the Royal Navy in 1925, served on the royal yacht, was tapped by King George...
Postponing Better Days. Actually, consumer-goods gains in 1954 were relatively small. According to the report of the Central Statistical Bureau, there was a 27% increase in the production of artificial silk underwear and a 6% increase in cotton fabrics, but in surveying the whole field, the bureau found that "much of this production was still of unsatisfactory quality." Makers of pianos, cameras, champagne, cigarettes, sausages, tea, matches and soap had exceeded their production quotas...
...this time the pilot is wearing so many protective layers that he is in danger of stewing in his own juices, so researchers of the U.S.A.F. Air Research and Development Command at Wright Air Force Base have developed a cooling suit to be worn under everything but the underwear. This consists of two layers of rubberized nylon, quilted together, with two sets of air holes. A hose from a valve near the pilot's navel hooks the suit into the plane's air-conditioning system, and cooled air pours through small holes around his body. Warmed and spent...
Among Albright's most famous works to date are a phosphorescently rotten-looking woman in underwear called Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and a moldy door called That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. "I just can't seem to paint nice things," he muses. "I've tried but it doesn't work. Once I designed a Christmas card and got a prize for it but no royalties. I think the only copies sold were those bought myself. It was a stained glass window-very dirty and dusty. Looked...
...murderers "twisting in their white sheets on the end of the whining rope" and could, today, he says, "cover a hundred pages with . . . fascinating cadavers." Writes Hecht nostalgically of those days: "That was happiness." The weakness of Hecht's armor was that it left him in sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers...