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...many baffling mysteries were solved, and many new weapons appeared in the lockers of the chemists. Now they could predict how a substance would react even when they had no sample of it. They could handle with new assurance the complex organic molecules, whose atoms are arranged like submicroscopic lace in chains, rings and branches. Out of the new techniques grew enormous industries -drugs, plastics and synthetic fibers...
...best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble on the TV screen without jelling. Producer Martin Manulis should have better results with plays to come. Among them: The Man Who Came to Dinner, Panama Hattie, The Philadelphia Story, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ah, Wilderness...
Factor's toupees ("hairpieces" in the trade) were an even bigger success. Instead of the obvious, helmet-like objects that hairless U.S. men expected, Factor made a new, almost invisible toupee by sewing each strand of hair to a piece of fine flesh-colored lace, sold every style from romantic waves to college-boy crew cuts. Now men all over the U.S. wear Factor "toups" (price: up to $150 apiece), and the company sells 20,000 a year. In Hollywood, nine out of every ten male stars over the age of 35 wear "hair additions" on the screen...
...cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...
...interviews will take lace from 2 to 5 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...