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...guessed that the purplish Temmoku glazes with distinctive "oil spots" must require a combination of natural clays rich in iron, fused with something like wood ash. If cooled down quickly after baking, such a mixture is shot through with spots or streaks. But while a spotty glaze is the easiest thing in the world to obtain, the Temmoku glaze with a deep, dappled gleam is apparently one of the hardest. The secret of making it has been lost for about 750 years. Experimenting over the past few months with a variety of natural clays and fusing materials, Gilbertson finally managed...
Before Raboski was taken off to Cook County jail, Chief Heck sent for Mrs. Raboski. "What's the matter?" she asked, when she arrived at the station. "The easiest way to tell you, I guess," said her husband, "is to read these to you." After he had owned up to Cornelius Pytsch's record. Virginia Raboski's first question was: "Am I married to you?" Her husband gently assured her that a person using an alias could marry as legally as anyone else...
...with applause at the first appearance in six months of Britain's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn. An attack of diphtheria last October had left strange complications. Her legs and arms were numb and nerveless. In January she said: "At the moment, I can't do even the easiest dance." By last week she felt ready to appear in the undemanding ballet Apparitions, and summoned her oldest friends to rally round. Instead of a few friendly faces, she drew a capacity audience of some 2,000 which gave Margot 14 curtain calls and 41 bouquets. Said...
...point of fact, spring practice's faithful bally-hoo artists stand no chance of seeing their project reinstituted for a long time to come. Resurrections are not the easiest things to achieve, anyway, and the Ivy League Presidents, as well as the NCAA, realize just how silly they would appear, if after abolishing spring practice one year, they suddenly arouse it the next with attendant financial, personnel, and moral problems. After some years, the question of whether the game, the players and the spectators benefit from either method ought to be clear. At present, it is nothing more than...
Easy Work. Wildcatting for oil, Jacobsen likes to say, is the easiest thing in the world: "You can make millions and millions. All you need is a checkbook-and money in the bank. You can get a competent drilling contractor to do all the work for you and you wouldn't even have to go near the place you were drilling. All you'd have to do is pick the place to drill...