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...process was born in 1935 when Basil Albert Adams and Eric Leighton Holmes of the British Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (which has no counterpart in the U.S.) prepared L, phenol-formaldehyde resin which was more useful for its chemical properties than as a plastic. When immersed in "hard" water, which contains salts of calcium, it entered an exchange: it took calcium atoms from the water, replaced them with sodium, thus softened the water...
...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...they had thought were gone forever. Complete with pictures, "Xs" marking spots, big-time crime had busted loose on Page 1 again. All the worn but reliable cliches were dusted off: "Big black sedan . . . sawed-off shotguns . . . far-flung man hunt . . . cold-blooded killers." Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, Bad Basil ("The Owl") Banghart and five other long-term incorrigibles had lammed from Illinois' supposedly escape-proof Stateville Prison...
...Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were...
...Most famed of Mount Athos' religious relics: the camel-hair girdle which legend says the Virgin gave to doubting Thomas; pieces of the True Cross; the skull of St. Basil the Great; the brains of St. John the Baptist; the three gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense and myrrh...