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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man is nowhere to be found in the latest collection "And On the Eighth Day." Apparently Dean has had done with introspection and now contents himself with satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...
Strange donors are found on the gift lists. Last year these included the National Museum of Colombo, Ceylon, the Eagle Pencil Company, and the Revere Racing Association...
First step was to study the chemical structure of wool, which is made up of long, thin molecules linked together crosswise, roughly as the side pieces of a long ladder are linked by the rungs. The chemists found that if they broke the cross links chemically, the wool was much easier for the moths to digest. The links, apparently, were the moths' big problem. So the chemists reasoned that if the links were made stronger, the moths might not be able to digest the wool...
...Transportation. Loewy quickly found out that industrial design was not easy: it was "25% inspiration and 75% transportation." He lugged briefcases of designs from one manufacturer to another around the U.S., barely sold enough to keep body and penthouse together for his first wife, Nebraska-born Jean Thomson. (Divorced in 1945, they parted "the best of friends," and she still has a 4% interest in his company...
...evil of slavery. To buttress his sense of superiority, the Southerner elevated the white woman to an impossible level of "purity" and then, to satisfy his instinctual needs, he turned to the Negroes with their "physical grace and rhythm and . . . psychosexual vigor." Each time that the Southerner "found the backyard temptation irresistible, his conscience split more deeply from his acts...