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...item, in this case a worn wax disc with a little music still audible if you listen for it. There is the assurance, never to be contradicted, that you yourself, endowed with the necessary technique, could improvise a jazz solo worthy of a Louis Armstrong. There is also the glow of superiority at being a member of a somewhat select, if ever-growing, minority to which names like Pee-Wee Russell and records like "Knockin' a Jug" mean something. And finally, there is the appreciation which an acquaintance with jazz, the unique invention of the Negro, brings of this other...
...army seems determined to turn the spotlight on its Negro discrimination policy as fast as the more brilliant glow of national emergency obliterates it. Working in two directions at once, it conceals this much-hushed problem with one hand and exposes it with the other. For its inconsistency the army deserves many thanks. The problem must not be forgotten. But that it should be kept open at the expense of the Negro draftee is unfortunate, and that is exactly what is being done...
...feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny this most basic tenet. It is to gild ourselves with a false glow that can only blind us to the bitter problems that have brought the world...
...many sorts of luminescent materials are classified by the stimulus which makes them glow. Some materials are affected by sound, radio waves, slow oxidation, cathode rays, or shaking. But all commercial luminescent pigments are photoluminescent: they glow only after stimulation by light. If the pigment glows for several minutes or hours after exposure to light, it is phosphorescent. If the afterglow is very brief-perhaps only 1/10,000th of a second - the pigment is fluorescent. Hence fluorescent substances glow only when continuously exposed to invisible ultraviolet rays ("black light"), which they reflect as visible light...
...their pure form some luminescent pigments glow quite feebly, but they brighten up startlingly when only .0006% of certain metals such as copper are added. Yet if a similar infinitesimal .0006% of iron is also present, the afterglow is dimmed by one-third. Since iron could easily be floating about the laboratories as dust, great care must be taken to guard the purity of the ingredients while they are being compounded in electric furnaces. Result: luminescent pigments are costly-price last week was from $12 to $25 per lb., or $10 to $60 per gallon for paints...