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...bringing suit for separate maintenance, Richard Michalak received, among more than 500 sure cures for snoring, suggestions that he 1) eat three small onions on retiring, 2) have his tonsils out, 3) drink goat's milk with all meals, 4) get some blood transfusions, 5) wrap a rubber tourniquet around his neck...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
Invited to "entertain" at a Harvard freshman smoker, Fan Dancer Sally Rand decided to give her performance a new twist. She turned up in ermine wrap and strapless evening gown, smiled at the wolfish whistles as she took off her fur announced: "That's as far as I go tonight." After a song & dance, she launched into a ten-minute lecture on the evils of Communism. The disappointed freshmen lobbed about a quarter's worth of pennies at the stage, and one grumbled later, "The whole idea was to have a good time, not listen to politics...
...earth, say we, and she'll laugh a harvest . . . We'll ship a magnificent one-ton batch of Daisy's finest to your door (or to the rear door or the barn) for $19 . . ." The store coyly cautioned that it was not prepared to gift-wrap the purchase...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a "longhair" who had coined the word "cybernetics"* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now Wiener's book, Cybernetics (TIME, Dec. 27, 1948), is a classic, and Wiener is a prophet who is listened to by shorthaired, hardheaded businessmen. Many of them agree wholeheartedly that the "cybernetic revolution" he predicted is already in progress...