Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...
Fertility Up. And there were the witnesses. Said Merrill Sampson of Lakeville, director of the State Duck Growers' Association: "Brown's master cell upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell...
...device that cleans and sterilizes an egg, breaks it, removes the contents, separates the yolk from the white, and throws away the shell...
...women graduates out-read the men by a wide margin, at least as far as bestsellers are concerned. Last year's far-&-away favorite (read by 48.1% of the men and 72% of the women) was Betty MacDonald's The Egg and I. Most-read magazines of both sexes, in order: Reader's Digest (46.5%), LIFE (42%), TIME...
...mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...