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This began the strangest director-star relationship in the history of U. S. cinema. In a few months was brought about the transformation of Mrs. Sieber. From an awkward, frail girl, visibly awed by the new world into which fate had thrust her, she became the purveyor of calculated glamour, icy and generous by turns, distant, temperamental, mysterious. Part of this was the result of coaching by von Sternberg, part of it the changes in her own ego wrought by the amazing publicity campaign organized for her by Paramount. Before Morocco, her next picture, was released Hollywood gazed astonished...
Another figure spotlighted at the Pittsburgh meeting, which 3,000-odd chemists attended, was not a chemist at all but an old and frail man of high finance, diplomacy and government: Andrew William Mellon. Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars...
...myself lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming. Except for actual ploughing, we raised a garden and fed ourselves entirely save for sugar, salt, coffee, and wheat flour. During the War, we did without flour and cane sugar! And we lived exceedingly well. Perhaps TIME doesn...
...England the position of frail little Haile Selassie grew so painful last week that His Majesty abruptly departed with his children for Scotland, unable to endure in London what was about to be done in the House of Commons...
...order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark, arches its back. The shell splits and the cicada slowly works out of it. At this stage the insect is whitish, has red eyes. The frail, crumpled wings spread out and grow strong with incredible rapidity. By morning the cicadas have grown dark, are ready to fly. For four or five weeks they frolic in the sunshine. After mating and egg-laying they die. The males have two drums of cartilage beneath their wings and muscles which...