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...last week, in the Elgin Watch factory in Elgin, ILL., a brand-new watch was dropped into a boiling bath of nitrohydrochloric acid. In a few minutes all of the watch was dissolved except the jewels -and the mainspring. It was as bright, hard and flexible as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wind-Up | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Those on the list were: Robert Ashenhurst, F. W. Parker School, Chicago; Jere W. Bruner, Bath High school, Bath, Ohio; Francis F. Chen, Horace Mann School, New York; Giles Constable, Phillips Academy, Andover; Hampton Davis, Central High School, Sioux City, Iowa; Jack Durell '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Samuel I. Epstein, Boston Latin; Preston W. Gifford, Jr., Fairhaven High School, Fairhaven; Ralph Gross '49, James Madison High School, Brooklyn; Frederic D. Houghteling, Phillips Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; Albert A. Kopf, George Washington High School, New York; Vasilios G. Letsou, Lowell High School; Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Names 21 Freshmen to Group 1 Honors | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

...sometimes angry and sometimes moody-but also a fellow who could relax, laugh his head off, throw expensive parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money ain't everything, unless a poor guy ain't got it." Once when a crony told Joe that he wanted to put on an all-Negro show, Joe reached mechanically for his checkbook, asked his friend, "Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Money Ain't Everything | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard is loafing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Roy | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...Alexander Watson-Watt* might claim to be the man. Sir Robert was the principal inventor of radar. The electronic watchdogs developed by him and his fellow "boffins" (secret war scientists) won the Battle of Britain for the outnumbered R.A.F. Sir Robert got a "well done"-the Order of the Bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Resurgent Boffin | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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