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Automatic Valet. In the lobby of a Cleveland office building last week, U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp. placed an automatic dry-cleaning vending machine. The customer phones the cleaning company from the machine and puts his suit in a locker. The clothes are picked up by the cleaner, returned to the locker in four to seven hours. The customer deposits his money and the locker opens. U.S. Hoffman plans to install 20 "Valeterias" in Cleveland, start nationwide distribution by next year...
Since first coming to Cambridge in 1914, Johnson served as bartender, valet, and jack-of-all-trades through the era of the original "Gold Coast," the thirsty days of Prohibition, and two world wars. Besides being the official bartender at many student parties and dances, including all those of the CRIMSON, he was for many years caretaker at the home of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus...
...costume ball in Paris, Viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles asked guests to come dressed as if they were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady's maid; Baron Alain de Rothschild played a bearded sea captain; Couturier Jacques Fath slipped into a simple bearskin creation, to match the gypsy getup of his pretty blonde wife, who is his favorite model...
...Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...
...Dudley Commuters have a arty and dance at the Commuters Center.ANNE MILLS '54 (left) and THOMAS G. VICKERY '53 fight a duel in the final not of the House play at Adams last night. The production was "The Lying Valet," David Garrick's Restoration farce. The other play, "On the House," was given at Dunster. "It contained a series of four sketches based on plays of Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and arranged with his cooperation...