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...paper clip was invented, perhaps as far back as the 13th century, to clip papers. Since then, it has been one of the most useful of all-purpose tools. Every office worker and housewife has taken advantage of this fact for years, but it took the Germans to make a definitive study. Alarmed at the rate at which its clips were disappearing, a Munich manufacturing firm sent spies out to trace the fate of 100,000 of them...
...splices just right, Doud and Co-Producer Alen Robin listened to 36 miles of taped interviews to clip out their answers, lined up such easy-to-recognize voices as Swayze and Westbrook Van Voorhis to put the questions. Not every exchange comes off; some are forced, obvious or needlessly raw. But the record does capture some high moments and victims...
...last week, Laugh at Me was selling at the hot clip of 5,500 copies a day. Why? "Maybe it's because we're honest and real," says Sonny...
...member of an international gang of bank robbers. In a Goldfingerish effort to rob the vaults of Geneva's Union de Banques Suisses, she is a glowing decoy, dressed in a luminescent lace leotard and equipped with a lipstick microphone, a powder-case television eye, and a sapphire clip that turns out to be a two-way radio...
During this summer season, the best ever, as many as 20,000 people a night have drifted up and down Wells trying to sort the clip joints from the first-rate, the gaudy from the genuinely giddy. In fact, that is Old Town's only problem: how to keep the gold-rush atmosphere under control. The Wells Street Association frowns on neon and flashing signs and is trying to get rid of barkers and sidewalk displays. One sidewalk guy can stay, though. Wells Street and Old Town would hardly be the same without their genuine mustachioed Italian hurdy-gurdy...