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Later Albert sold Bellanca's holdings in Nelson to Automatic Washer Co. in exchange for 687,000 shares of Automatic, then worth about $5,600,000. Automatic also canceled an I.O.U. it held from Albert in the amount of $1,525,000. Therefore, Albert's investment in Nelson of $1,250,000 brought him a return of more than...
Stoppered. In Rio de Janeiro, arrested for practicing medicine without a license, Window Washer Alves de Sousa explained: "I stole so many drugs from hospitals where I worked that I was compelled to open a medical office in order to sell them to my patients before they spoiled...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...
...village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window-washer...
...Washer's Friend. Cleaning pots and pans will be simplified by a new silicone-coating process that makes cooking utensils adhesion-proof. To be marketed by Omaha's new Selinized Process Co., the coating makes it possible to clean most utensils with a dishcloth. Some deposits come clean when the pan is turned upside down and tapped; more stubborn food remnants can be burned off by putting the coated saucepan back on a hot stove. By early fall the first batch of 7,500 Selinized standard aluminum utensils will be marketed in the Nebraska area at prices about...