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Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...
Philco's set, scheduled for mass production by summer, performs as well as the pre-Korea models and will cost "approximately" the same. One possible drawback: the substitute materials may cut down on the life expectancy of the new sets. More serious for U.S. set owners who have to replace old parts: the new substitute materials may not always work in old-model sets...
...grimy brick face staring stolidly out on Broadway. Designed in 1880 by a college (Yale, Williams) architect named J. Cleaveland Cady, who had never seen any of the world's great opera houses, nor so much as a single opera performance, the building is a nearly insuperable drawback. There is no backstage storage space for scenery; to haul a big opera in & out of the warehouse for one performance can cost the Met around $3,000. Furthermore, the Met as now laid out contains 500 "blind" seats, i.e., those from which the customer can see less than two-thirds...
...mosaic turns out to be about a girl who goes through one or more traumatic experiences, grows up, and returns to her childhood home in the country. The story, however, is too fragmentary for more than a superficial understanding, and that, it would seem to me, is a distinct drawback to the mosaic theory of writing...
...advantages of film ("Live TV depends on actors ad-libbing in front of a live camera"), Producer Morgan started Fireside Theater in 1949, from the start had a sponsor (Ivory Soap, Duz, Crisco). Originally, each show consisted of two separate, 15-minute playlets, but this technique had a serious drawback: "People who didn't like the first show sometimes switched before the second one came...