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Metrecal soup in three flavors (cream of tomato, clam chowder, and split pea with ham), each containing in one 8-oz. can a nutritionally complete 225-calorie meal. The soups will sell for about 39? each or $1.17 for a three-pack. > The two-way wrist radio (invented 15 years ago by "Brilliant" and "Diet Smith") has saved Dick Tracy from many a nasty comic-strip scrape. Cartoonist Chester Gould now plans to move the contraption off the drawing board and onto the wrists of Tracy fans everywhere. The radio comes in two pieces-a 9-volt power pack with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: New Products | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...projectionist rose, looked out at the screen, nodin surprise, and with a flick of the wrist restored the focus. From down below came no reaction. No collective sigh of relief. Not even an honest "whew...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: Last Train from Marienbad | 9/26/1962 | See Source »

...Wrist & Spin. Until this year, few experts rated Laver as a serious threat to Budge's lonely eminence. One of the "tennis babies" that Australia seems to breed as profusely as kangaroos, he was one of four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an avid player and a mother who sometimes skipped kitchen duties to bat tennis balls around with her brood. At 15 he quit school to play tennis fulltime under the eye of Harry Hopman, the genius of Australian tennis. His booming serve and volley are impressively hard for a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket's Slam | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...other end of the line tells her to throw it out-and she does. At 4:30, an 8-year-old sitting up with a flashlight calls to describe his dog giving birth. Next a woman rings up to say that she has slashed one wrist and intends to slash the other; the man tips off the police, who beat down the door and subdue her. A gang leader calls to announce a rumble with a rival group, and the man arranges to meet both gangs later in the morning to try to settle things peacefully. A former executioner with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Ail-Night Psychiatrist | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...redoubtable group as yours." Last week, when the British winkers met the likes of S. J. Perelman and Stage Director-Producpr Mike Ellis in Bucks County, there was a hint of opposition. Perelman lost with a debonair, hand-in-pocket flair; Ellis' keen squidging eye and steady wrist made him one of the few Yanks who avoided a shutout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winking In | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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