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...Corsets & Asparagus. He had his closest call late in 1957. Thundering along the Ohio River at 175 m.p.h. during the Indiana Governor's Cup race, Miss Thriftway blew up spectacularly, hurling Muncey into the water. Luckily, he broke no bones; but he spent weeks in the hospital recovering from internal injuries, now wears a steel corset in every race. He sank the second Miss Thriftway in 1958, when he lost a rudder and rammed a 40-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. He placed a close second in the 1959 Gold Cup competition, won it for the third time...
...Corsets & Buggy Whips. Since his youth in Three Oaks, Mich. (pop. in 1900: 990), Donner has always seemed to have an uncommonly sure sense of where he was going. The only child of an accountant for the Warren Featherbone Co. (corset stays and buggy whips), young Fred, neighbors recall, "didn't care much for athletics; he read at least two hours a day. And even as a boy he had a routine-so much time for work, so much time for play, so much time for study...
...Joan Sutherland, 35, announced that she would have to suspend her operatic career for up to six months because of a two-year-old spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision about my future engagements. But I certainly have no intention of announcing my retirement...
Silent Treatment. As he hobbled into his second week on crutches, the President continued to wear the small laced corset on his back. Most evenings he went for a brief, gingerly swim in the White House pool (heated to 87°) and relaxed on electric heating pads covered with moist towels. New treatment was introduced with the use of ultrasonic therapy. The silent sound waves were played across the President's back from a portable machine for 15 minutes every other day to ease tense muscles...
Studying such events, actuaries some years ago decided that Clark Gable was the best risk in films, Elizabeth Taylor the worst by a wide margin. Making Raintree County four years ago, she wore a tight, Kodiak sort of corset that induced a hyperventilation syndrome ($45,299). For minor illnesses in Giant and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, she cost Fireman's Fund some $75,000. And now Lloyd's and the other underwriters are trying to decide whether they will reinstate Cleopatra's coverage. If they do not, the picture may never be finished. Insurance...