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...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...
...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
...growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing designer who started the movement toward a more elegant war. From the Atlantic to Paris the cry will echo: "Dilkusha, we are here...
Readers who chuckled over Virginia Faulkner's first novel, Friends and Romans (TIME, July 23), last week reached with smiling expectation for her second. Like her first, The Barbarians is a light-hearted farce compounded of verbal high jinks, a glass house epigrammed in chromium, furnished (in spots) with topical puns. An unserious book if there ever was one, it should appeal to those who like their chatter in book form; might even do a little missionary work among the followers of the late Thorne Smith...
Then in Leyden, Professor W. J. de Haas turned to another magnetic com- pound, containing potassium, chromium, alum. Last week he revealed that he had taken a huge bite from the tiny distance remaining. His compound was .0002° C. above Absolute Zero...