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...radios" were crystal sets fashioned from bits of wire, smuggled crystals and makeshift diaphragms. Though primitive, the sets easily picked up broadcasts from a nearby transmitter tower of Manhattan's station...
...main strand in The Women revolves around the attempts of Mary Haynes to win back her erring husband, who has taken up with a peroxide siren, Crystal Allen, portrayed by Dani Holmgren with just the right nonchalance. Around this situation a succession of humorous characters, ranging from a Countess to a cigarette girl, parade on and off the stage to the delight of everyone. On reflection, they seem stereotyped; perhaps Miss Luce meant them to be that way, for The Women is primarily a satire on drawing-room women of manners and many...
CRIMSON baseball pundits, after a long winter of second-guessing, trade-mongering, and crystal ball gazing, have finally agreed on the season's prospects for the "National Pastime" and herewith present their studied calculations before today's openers...
...Crystal Balls. A veteran adman and onetime vice president in charge of sales at Coca-Cola, Steele knew what was wrong with Pepsi when he took over. The accounting system was so slipshod that management did not even know the production figures of some of its biggest bottlers, or the breakdown of its costs. Says Steele: "They were operating by gazing into a crystal ball." Steele brought in a bunch of old Coca-Cola hands, set up a detailed method of cost accounting. He slashed costs by eliminating executive bonuses (he incorporated his own in his $96,000-a-year...
...sunny June evening in the hectic '30s. In his Westminster house, Beverley Nichols, man of letters, was arraying himself in exquisite evening dress: "Tails by Lesley and Roberts in Hanover Square, waistcoat by Hawes and Curtis . . . silk hat by Locke . . . monk shoes by Fortnum and Mason's . . . crystal and diamond links by Boucheron . . . gold cigarette case by Asprey ... a drop of rose geranium on my handkerchief." But Beverley was not at ease. While he dressed and sipped a sidecar, he stared into his mirror and asked himself anxiously: "What is wrong with you? Why aren...