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Andre Durenceau, 28, is an unworldly French-born U. S. citizen who studied at the Beaux Arts in Paris, once designed textiles for the United Piece Dye Works in Manhattan. There he met Mrs. Kaplan, also a designer. In Hollywood, he was given a job as color adviser to Technicolor Inc. in which Sonny and his cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney later became heavy stockholders (TIME, June 5). Mrs. Kaplan also went to Hollywood, was persuaded by Durenceau she would be a more successful manager than artist. Her first job as manager was to get commissions to decorate Hollywood homes...
Lined up in the fight against cancer last week were sunlight and a dye called phloxine. At Washington's Carnegie Institution young John F. Menke removed some cancer tissue from rats, put it in small glass vessels. There it lived and grew in a culture of the rats' blood. He added some phloxine, a dye closely related to mercurochrome. Nothing happened. Then he exposed the vessels to strong sunlight for five minutes. Activated by the light, the dye attacked the cancer cells, withered them in 30 to 180 minutes. But certain normal cells imbedded in the cancer tissue...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
General Aviation, General Motors, Studebaker, American Can questioned the Federal Trade Commission's authority, refused to reply to its questionnaire. Several others, including Allied Chemical & Dye, Delaware & Hudson, American I. G. Chemical, Koppers Gas & Coke, declined to answer on the ground that their business was not interstate...
Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...