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With the aid of the local police laboratory, his bureau examined hundreds of violins brought to it by worried buyers. Most of the instruments had telltale modern coats of lacquer or labels with inks and paper of recent manufacture. In one violin, the police lab even found particles of nylon. A concertmaster brought Iviglia a "Stradivarius" (for which he had paid $13,000) with a label reading "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis faciebat Anno 1703." Underneath, another label was found reading "Pietro Antonio della Costa, Treviso, Anno 1764." Both labels were false. A Swiss collector brought in a 1716 "Stradivarius" for which...
...Buick. It boosted lowest price models by $63, lopped $491 off its top-price line. But the prices were not strictly comparable to last year's because Buick completely changed all its cars, and some of the '59s will carry 1958 extras as standard equipment, e.g., acrylic lacquer finish that General Motors says retains 75% of its original sheen after a year's exposure...
...offer of 2,000,000 francs ($5,000) for it. Cocteau drew a doodle, surrounded it with blue blobs. Tube-Squirter Georges Mathieu held himself down, produced only some wispy black lines and fuchsia smears. Oldtime Surrealist Léonor Fini turned her refrigerator into a Chinese lacquer box decorated with stalking cats...
Poised in the midst of the last-minute clutter and confusion stands the U.S. Pavilion, a soaring, airy, translucent drum, delicately resting on thin steel columns now getting their final golden lacquer (see color pages). Before it, workmen are completing the paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting...
...College of Surgeons in Chicago last week. Before surgery, hair is shampooed repeatedly with a surgical detergent enriched with hexachlorophene to sterilize the scalp. The hair is combed carefully away from the place of incision, made to lie flat and remain securely in place by spraying with a non-lacquer wave-set compound. The operation is performed in the normal manner, but surgeons need expose less than three-quarters of an inch of scalp in making the incision. Dr. Williams notes that many women become depressed after having their heads shaved, feels the new technique will help diminish anxiety over...