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Later, a toxicologist for American Cyanamid, which markets the controversial weed-killer, stated that a person "would have to consume 15,000 pounds of contaminated cranberries a day for many years" to sustain ill effects. Belatedly, Flemming's Department dispatched a hundred chemists to separate the good cranberries from...
Pillow Talk. A sometimes fluffy comedy, with Supporting Player Tony Randall earning all the yaks, and Stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson on hand to supply scenery...
...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
During the Thirty Years' War, a Krupp sold guns to Protestant and Catholic alike, and from that day to the end of World War II the family was rarely false to the Shavian armorer's creed. The blood-and-iron saga of Kruppdom, including its rise from the ashes of World Wars I and II, is an intrinsically fascinating story. Unfortunately the drama is often dulled by German-born Author Norbert Muhlen's drab style. But he livens his chronicle with a series of personality sketches of the lonely, driven eccentrics who lorded it over the steelworks...
Uncorseted Bliss. German-Jewish Papa Stein was a wool merchant, and some would argue that Gertrude was, too. As a baby, Gertrude, wrote her mother, was "a little Schnatterer. She talks all day long and repeats everything that is said or done." At Radcliffe, Gertrude became Philosopher William James's favorite Schnatterer and roamed the classrooms in uncorseted bliss ("She always seemed to like her own fat," a friend later said). She also experimented in what came to be known as automatic writing. This may have inspired her incantatory rhythms and inane repetitions, though Author Brinnin bristles...