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Sporting Life. At Chicago's auto show this week, Nash will show off its two-seater sports roadster, the first such car produced by a major U.S. manufacturer in 20 years. The Nash Healey, designed for Nash by Great Britain's famed Donald Healey Co., is only 38 inches from road to hood top. It is powered by a 125-h.p. version of Nash's six-cylinder Ambassador engine, can do 125 m.p.h. The engine and major mechanical parts will be made by Nash, the bodies by Healey in England. The car will be assembled by Healey, then shipped to the U.S. Price: $4,000.

Coal Hole. Coal will soon be transported by pipeline by the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. The company will spend $550,000 on a twelve-inch, three-mile experimental pipeline near Cadiz, Ohio. The coal will be crushed fine, mixed with water to form a mudlike "slurry," and pumped through the pipe. At the end, the coal will be dried.

Shoppers' Guide. Manhattan's Telegift, Inc. teamed up with Western Union to wire gifts almost anywhere in the U.S. The customer calls Western Union, names the gift and the recipient, and Western Union takes care of the rest. Telegift has signed up 18 stores, will invite a total of 150, charge them a 15% commission for the sale, bill the customer the list price of the gift. Some 5,000,000 pocket gift catalogues will be distributed all over the U.S. when Telegift swings into operation on May 7.

Thin Tin. Weirton Steel Co. found a way to save tin in tin cans, thus help ease the critical tin shortage. A new plating process puts a thick layer of tin on one side of a steel sheet, a thin one on the other. Methods now in general use put the same thickness on both sides, although tin cans need the thick layer only on the inside. The new plating process, said Weirton President Thomas E. Millsop, will save at least 25% on tin.

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