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...Husking Willkie. Republican by inheritance and initial choice, Wallace was the son of Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge, ran the prosperous family weekly Wallace's Farmer (motto: "Good Farming, Clear Thinking, Right Living") and the Hi-Bred (a play on hybrid) Corn Co. Believing, correctly, that the farm depression would drag down the entire economy, he later enlisted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first brain trust. Wallace wrote F.D.R.'s farm plank in 1932. Then he assumed the herculean task of implementing it as Agriculture Secretary during the first two Roosevelt administrations...
...sound must be emphatic and reasonably close to the switch. The sound of dropped china breaking on a wood floor will not do, according to lab tests, but the second movement of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons will-if played on an absolutely first-rate, perfectly tuned hi-fi system. So will the telephone, if it is set on "loud" and the switch is within three feet. Before the year is out, the company plans to offer a second model that will respond only to the phone and only after 15 full phone rings. That will enable the housewife...
...built houses with a pretentious name ("Tiffany") but a practical attraction: a covered swimming pool just half a dozen steps away from the kitchen. Prices for the houses: $22,450 to $33,450. Other amenities offered by builders now include long, narrow windows that extend from ground to roof: hi-fi systems with outlets in every room: and television hookups between front door and kitchen so that housewives can see who is calling...
...Hi Lili! How low! "She is no sex bomb!" was Sovietskaya Kultura's left-handed welcome to coltish Leslie Caron, 34, as she flew into Moscow for the Russian premiere of her 1963 picture The L-Shaped Room-in which she lives with a penniless writer in a proletarian cubbyhole. If she were sexier, argued the newspaper's columnist, with something less than perfect logic, "she would have been forgotten long ago." Still, remembering her performances in An American in Paris and Lili, Moscow's Louella sighed approvingly: "She is a fine actress, always believable...
...time, the complete units will make the separate-component-part hi-fi obsolete," claims KLH President Kloss. Perhaps he is overly optimistic, but at least the small-fi has placed great music within earshot of the Great Society...