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Geophysicists have long thought that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of strain (distortion) in the earth's crust. Dr. Benioff studied the records of all major earthquakes since 1904 and made a chart of their "strain-rebound" characteristics. Somewhat to his surprise, the chart made a regular, sawtooth pattern, with the teeth getting smaller and lower as the diagram approached...
...first of his family to try. Back in 1927, Francis Biddle knocked out a novel, The Llanfear Pattern, in which the upper-crust Philadelphia hero tries to be a social rebel, finds it too much for his well-conditioned conventions. † A custom which, if generally followed by Philadelphia writers, may partly account for the notorious taste of Philadelphia's drinking water...
Last week, 47-year-old Arthur Stanley Talbott told the Los Angeles Advertising Club the results of his survey on "How to Open Women's Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...
...swung his crutches over the puddle, lifting his cast and its wooly sock carefully so it wouldn't splash in the slush. The crutch tips banged solidly against the sidewalk; Vag raised them again, and then plunged them into the crust of melting snow at the end of a driveway...
...labor leader over for a Saturday night's bridge game, nominate him for the local country club, invite him to work in the Red Cross and Community Chest drives. The employer's wife can help by shepherding the union man's wife into upper-crust women's clubs. But Imberman leaves one big question unanswered: Will a union leader still have the loyalty of his unionists when they see him drinking cocktails with the boss...