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Divorced. Billy Rose, 59, millionaire showman; by Joyce Mathews, 39, blonde sometime TV actress who once (1951) dabbed at her wrists with a razor blade because Billy would not marry her; he for the third time, she for the fourth...
...stockings. "Sherry, my sweet," cooed Lorraine to the bewhiskered leading man. "Oh, darling! Look at that poor, sweet, tortured face! Let me kiss it." After that entrance it was hard to believe the program. The seductively feline manner and the shapely, shaved legs (badly nicked by a dressing-room razor) of Lorraine Sheldon belonged to an actor named T. (for Thomas) C. (for Craig) Jones...
...liberators" who survived an air and naval bombardment, it said, "waded ashore apparently hoping still to march on Ciudad Trujillo with the aid of peasants. It did not work that way. Machete-swinging farmers beat government troops to the beach. The invasion ended in a murderous flailing of razor-sharp machetes on the reddened sands. Army patrols found only dismembered bodies...
...most of all, the plastic makers are counting on public education. Says Harry Benberg, president of New York's Spotless Stores (200 stores): "Plastic bags are something new, and people have got to learn about them the way they learned about matches, razor blades and guns...
...conducted by Adolf Butenandt, 56, who was co-winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (for isolating the male sex hormone, androsterone), a research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were placed near...