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...very fine coating of shellac makes an excellent base. This should be put on the skis with a cloth (not a brush) in order to obtain an absolutely smooth surface...
...lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone 46,140,000 pounds were produced last year, mostly for the paper industry. Some 20 years ago a German chemist named Todtenhaupt made a weak wool-like cloth from casein. In 1935 an Italian, Commendatore Antonio Ferretti, improved the process, which was promptly commandeered by Mussolini as one way of combatting sanctions. Snia Viscosa is now turning out almost 10,000,000 pounds of lanital a year. Having practically the same chemical composition as wool, it is made...
...general that the Balinese have no word for it. Housewives prepare offerings to the gods in the form of sculptured food, with statues carved in gristle decorated with red peppers and lacy lining from the stomachs of hogs. The handles of daggers and the designs on native cloth show the same painstaking craft...
...body of Andrew Carnegie were disinterred it would be found to have turned after that award to the creator of The Yellow Cloth. The dead steelmaster's fortune has scattered libraries throughout the land, has endowed Carnegie Tech and founded the Institute which judged this painting. Oh hail! to the libraries and Tech and "oh Hell!" to the Institute...
Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...