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...ubiquitous swamp cattails. Just before they burst into full-blown feather, the brown seed clumps can be milled into lightweight, water-resistant fluff suitable for stuffing and padding-and expected to work satisfactorily in life jackets. The discovery of this homely substitute is credited to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess, thinker-tinker president of Burgess Battery Co., 1942 winner of the Acheson Medal, electrochemistry's highest award...
...changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss waltzes from other sources, given it a new prologue, a new name (Rosalinda) and a decorous, Victorian strip tease (see cut) that leaves its leading lady more thoroughly clad than many of today's best-dressed bathing beauties...
...plays are mainly unpopular* in London-largely because of their subject, but partly because of their shortcomings. But sheer escape, sheer fluff and frivolity has not completely swamped the theater. Despite the terrific jump in productions, musicals have not multiplied: ten last season, ten this. Of three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill...
...most U.S. railroad executives the whole affair was utterly fantastic. A little pipsqueak railroad had soundly beaten the giant Brotherhoods, slashed their demands by 75%. Not in decades had a big road extracted more than a handful of fluff from the Brotherhood featherbed. There was only one big hitch: G. P. McN. was still minus his railroad...
...famed peninsula rain, which sometimes drips 122 inches a year, washed them out. Ickes looked tired, his face grey where it was not floridly blotched. He growled to a reporter: "I haven't hrd a vacation yet." Said Jane Ickes: "All this talk of vacation is so much fluff...