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...HEAD TO FRONT DOOR. Porter, who wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found that the prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never stray too far from the world of Goddard, since old William Randolph Hearst keeps a dimming...
Perhaps the change that disturbed the old Prince most was something shiny and plastic in the Casino's foyer: a U.S. and a French slot machine, both geared to take one-franc coins. But, plus ça change, plus c'est la meêe chose. Slot machines or roulette tables-Prince Louis still had his principality. Europe was still willing to take chances...
...here. The flyer is wearing a "Strato-Suit" developed by the late Major John G. Kearby of the Air Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...
...Government cited as an example of price setting that the plastic, when sold in large quantities for Plexiglas, cost 85? a lb.; when sold in small quantities to dentists for dentures, the price was $45 a lb. Defense attorneys answered: the agreements had been made to protect the products and patents, a perfectly legal procedure under U.S. patent laws; at times the operations appeared to assume the aspects of monopoly, but there was no conspiracy...
When mild Lee Judson querulously noted that his bride seemed unconcerned, she sweetly replied: "Well, if you must know, Mr. Logan bit Mrs. Logan's nose. She's at a hospital for some plastic surgery." Mrs. Peete remained unperturbed when Arthur Logan was taken off to an insane asylum, where he died...