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...gone in a lot for illusion," wrote leggy Literatease Gypsy Rose Lee in Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...
...leading enthusiasms of U.S. literary-intellectual pundits. Next month, for the first time, a book by William Faulkner is a Book-of-the-Month-Club alternate selection. A fat collection of 42 Faulkner tales written over the past quarter-century, Collected Stories will let a brand-new layer of U.S. readers judge for themselves what all the critical whooping is about. The stories are also pretty sure to bring a spate of re-estimates by the critics themselves...
...gives clues about the high atmosphere. The waves that make the 160-mile jump experience various vicissitudes. In the warm air near the earth they move fast. Then they slow down gradually as the air grows colder. Passing through the stratosphere (temp. - 70° F.) they hit a warmer layer of air 30 to 35 miles above the earth which turns them back down to the microphones...
...pursued by his boss's daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), an amateur student of psychiatry. Krasna has fleshed out the farce idea with a curious subplot about the law firm's efforts to keep a Chinese-American tenant out of a "restricted" apartment building. The result makes an odd layer cake composed" of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible...
...reaction discussed by the author uses deuterium (heavy hydrogen) packed into a layer around the uranium detonator. Deuterium atoms, which are given the comparatively low energy of 100,000 electron volts, says the article, will react with each other on collision, turning into helium 3 and a single free neutron. The products fly apart, with a speed equivalent to 3.3 million electron volts...