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Future Shylocks will get invaluable experience in "fixing books," harassing creditors, and seducing prospects, while photographers will get special training in the use of microfilm and infra-red photography...
...well burst forth posthumously with a bestseller. Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson has been known -if at all-as a sort of two-dimensional adjunct to her great husband Robert Louis Stevenson. Now, all at once, Fanny is three-dimensional. Anthologist-Author Charles Neider, aided by infra-red and ultraviolet light, but hindered by often almost illegible handwriting, has published Fanny's diary, which he discovered gathering dust in a Monterey, Calif, museum...
...many Renaissance paintings," and "the anatomy, e.g., of the Virgin's eye socket ... is better understood and more determinedly modeled." When the British press turned the dispute into a guessing game, the National Gallery decided it was time to put its Francia through a threefold lab test: Xray, infra-red and microscopic analysis...
...results were conclusive. The X rays showed that the paint in the National Gallery's Francia did not have the heavy amounts of lead carbonate usual in most Renaissance paintings. Infra-red exposure for half a minute revealed black pencil lines under the paint (unknown in Francia's works). More important the pencil sketch was not in Francia's style. Under the microscope the painting's craquelure, instead of conforming to the regular pattern, spidered over the painting...
Electric Ham. Electrostatically smoked hams were put on sale by Indianapolis' Kingan Inc. First baked in infra-red ovens, the hams are then carried through smoke-filled tunnels in which meat and smoke are oppositely charged so that the hams electrostatically attract as much smoke in four minutes as they would in twelve hours in the smokehouses that are usually used, giving the hams a notably mild and sweet flavor. Price...