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Heating Pads & Houses. These warm feelings seem to have married the trading stamp to the U.S. economy for better or worse. Some 375 billion stamps will leave their glue on American tongues in 1962. They will be issued under about 300 different names, but 90% of them will come from one of the eight big stamp companies: S & H Green Stamps, Top Value, Plaid Stamps, Gold Bond, Frontier, Blue Chip, King Korn, Triple S. The goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads...
...Thrift Key is a plastic gadget, like the old key on the sardine can, that fits on the end of a tube of toothpaste, shaving cream, glue or anchovy paste, rolls up the bottom of the tube as the contents are used, and ensures that none of the product is wasted. Manufactured by Crawford Industries, Ltd., New York. Price...
...after some undercover ransoming by insurance companies, in an abandoned car in Marseille. Though it had escaped serious damage when the thieves pulled it from its frame, the painting needed a new canvas backing. Kansas City Art Conservator James Roth set to work, found an unusually thick layer of glue beneath the torn fabric. He softened the rock-hard glue with wet packs, picked away with tweezers, gradually revealing the white-kerchiefed head of a woman, its strongly modeled face accented by deep red shadows...
...brawny, barrel-shaped man who is up at dawn each morning for a full day of puttering and painting at his thick-beamed home in Sag Harbor, L.I. He may mend a broken piece of furniture or glue together some shattered crockery, but his mind is never far from the converted stable he uses as a studio. There, either painting from a model or from memory, he turns out nudes, landscapes, portraits and still lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors...
Says he: "We're well aware there are risks involved. There are a lot of things to learn. You just don't glue a bunch of bolts and metal together and go off on a space flight." Nonetheless, beneath everything this absorbing show's guests have to say emerges the staggering fact that they talk about going to the moon as if they planned to push a button and get off on the 40th floor...