Word: vue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Am-Ben Corp. last week unveiled a new rear-view mirror, which it whooped up as the first really efficient auto mirror. Automakers who tested it thought so too. The "Wyd-Vue," invented by Am-Ben's President Charles L. Bennett, is a series of five mirrors mounted on rubber cushions in a metal frame, which can be attached to the molding atop the windshield. With a mirror surface of 70 square inches and a 180° arc of vision, a driver can see cars behind to the right & left as well as straight back. Bennett...
Magnifier. A plastic lens which, clamped to small (52 sq. in.) television sets, triples the size of the image went on sale in New York. The name: Walco Tele-vue-lens. The price...
...last week most French journalists were ready to agree that 40-year-old Pierre Lazareff is the closest thing to genius in the French press. The weekly Point de Vue dubbed him "Napoleon of Journalists." Lazareff's successes were indeed Napoleonic. In the 30-odd months since he returned to France (after almost four years as a war exile in the U.S., where for a time he headed the French radio section of the Office of War Information), he had put together a more formidable empire than he had before...
...foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
...look forward to their Graduation Dance. To them it means the end of three months of continual studying and preparation for the duties and responsibilities of an officer. The Parker House Roof will again be the scene of their revelry, and if last Saturday's affairs was a pre-vue of the coming dance, then there is no doubt of its being a tremendous success...