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Clean Sweep. In Richmond, Calif., after a night of tippling, seven vacuum-cleaner salesmen decided to stage a selling competition at 4:50 a.m., knocked on the door of John A. Penberthy, who dispersed them with three shots...
Cambridge, by contrast, is cleaner, quieter, and usually a more pleasant place to live. But in spite of all the little diversions of the summer, it can get pretty dull. Even if it only to see a movie or to ramble around Scollay, you should travel those eight minutes to Park Street and take a look at Hell.The lovely banks of the Charles...
...life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
...beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman ("Tommy, didn't your mother ever tell you that it's not nice to go into people's houses and open their refrigerators...
...model Ford is price-tagged at $500; beside it stands a 1930 Dodge at $875; next comes a 1936 British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...