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...trick magnificently, turning the fog to snow. Silver iodide crystals are hexagonal, as snow crystals are. Apparently snowflakes recognize the kinship and are fooled into hanging on. An infinitesimal whiff is enough. In the presence of iodine vapor a single electric spark will knock enough silver out of a dime to start a snow flurry. Burning a cotton string impregnated with silver iodide makes enough crystalline smoke to cause a sizable snowstorm...
Like most good things, "Stairway" rings the bell on the note of its unexpected freshness and intellectual maturity. Where most producers manage to distort the elementary love story into a complicated and painfully dime novel entanglement, writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Press-burger have restored this favorite theme to its original charm and simplicity...
...Coffee Club. Next morning the President engineered one of the little scenes that most delight him. Dropping into the five-&-dime store, in search of Mayor Roger T. Sermon, Harry Truman happily joined the "coffee club" at the soda fountain. Perched on a stool, sipping a nickel Coke, enjoying the giggling confusion of the fountain girl, Harry Truman had the time of his life...
...innkeeper's son, raised in the small town of Stolp, Pomerania, young Grosz spent more time over dime novels than art until he was 14. Then he managed to peek in on a playmate's pretty aunt as she was undressing. Says Grosz: "The image of the naked, Rubenesque woman pursued me and has continued to do so to this day." Grosz went on to art school, where he could peek as much as he liked...
...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...