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Battery Watch. An electronic wrist watch that eliminates 30 parts found in ordinary watches and keeps "perfect" time was exhibited last week by the Elgin National Watch Co. of Elgin, Ill. The watch motor is the smallest ever built, runs for a year on a peanut-sized battery. Elgin plans to market the watch in about 18 months for $200-$500, expects it will be "some years" before the watch can be brought down to the $50 class...
Their leader made another speech. "Gold," he demanded. "The only damned gold we have is my watch," Captain Stanton snapped, ripping it off his wrist and handing it over. The pirate chief ordered two of the crewmen who had accompanied Stanton to hand over their wristwatches...
Test Case. In Chicago, Board of Health President Herman Bundesen, long an outspoken foe of jaywalking, tried it, got a broken wrist...
...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...
...grin; on a horse, he is a hot-tempered terror. This year he got a nine-day suspension for slashing a jockey, got another ten days for causing a spill, was fined $200 for cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners, but Charlie Burr, at 17, can afford to be philosophic about it: his 301 winners and some 700 other mounts...