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...special "atmosphere not found in the cold, harsh light of day." Joe is not much interested in painting people. "You don't find people around the street lamps -especially in out-of-the-way places. It'd be phony to put them in. A guy and a gal would distract from the painting-they'd look all gooey and drippy...
...Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...
...camera caught Miss McCormick -who appears to be a rather tall gal-in the act of ramming her snickersnee between the shoulders of an animal called (jokingly?) a bull . . . In Wyoming, such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne...
...never knowingly bought anything I heard advertised on the air"), Webster is gentler in his handling of the programs themselves, and sometimes worries for fear one of his satires may make a performer unhappy. Last week he was cheered to get a letter from The Lonesome Gal (TIME, June 26, 1950), assuring him that she was delighted with a recent cartoon that showed an adolescent snarling "Mush!" at her honeyed comments...
Mabel Carmon grew up in Streator, Ill., took her training at Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, soon became the "righthand gal" of Dr. Joseph B. DeLee, who headed Lying-in from its opening in 1895 to his death in 1942. She first went to work for him in 1907, when Lying-in was running a three-bedroom, gaslit hospital in Chicago's stockyards district, and when nearly all U.S. infants were born at home...