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...maid who arrived in mid-morning to clean the San Francisco apartment of Mrs. Theresa Butler, 60, thought that her employer was dead: she was lying in a half-filled bathtub and could not be roused. The doctor who came at the call of the apartment manager also thought that Mrs. Butler was dead. He could find no pulse, his stethoscope revealed no heartbeat. A mirror held before her mouth and nostrils showed no breathing. The eyes seemed lifeless, and Mrs. Butler's body was cold. Though the doctor estimated that she had been dead for hours, rigor mortis...
...southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment later the wind tore her loose, and she was washed away...
...caught on faster than frozen orange juice. Its sales have soared from an initial 225,000 gallons five years ago to an estimated 31 million this past year. But the paradox is that the more juice the industry sells, the less money it. makes. Last year, both Minute Maid and Snow Crop-the industry's big two-had a rough time. The trouble? The cost of oranges skyrocketed from 46? a box to $2.12, while at retail the industry has been racked by price wars which have recently forced juice producers to sell below cost...
College room occupancy has only dropped this fall by 90 to a total of 3,736, but Vice-President Reynolds' office yesterday reported sharp increases in the cost of maid service, heat, and building maintenance...
Other reigning queens: "The Apple of Our Eye" (the apple industry), "Maid of Cotton," "Miss Alarming" (alarm systems), "Miss Beautyrest" (mattresses), "Girl We'd Most Like to BEE With" (honey), "Girl With the Best Connections" (electric appliances), "Miss Aluminum Stepladder...