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...TREASURY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL HUMOR, edited by Leonard C. Lewin. A happy sampling of parody, lampoon and satire that stretches in broad grins from Concord Bridge to the Kennedy Frontier and spares no political ideology, be it right, left or middle...
High on the list of Israel's slim supply of natural resources are the brains of its scientists and the chemicals such as bromine that can be extracted from the Dead Sea. Making use of both resources, Chemist Menahem Lewin has developed a wood-fireproofing process that may create a new world market for Israeli bromine...
Bromine has long been known for its fireproofing qualities, but if it combines with wood's cellulose fibers, it weakens them seriously. Dr. Lewin's process gets around this disadvantage by forcing the bromine to attach itself to the wood's lignin, the cement that causes the fibers to stick to each other. The best grades of paper have no lignin, but the types of wood pulp used to make paperboard and wallboard retain enough of it to make Dr. Lewin's process useful...
...Anaconda Vice President Justice Lockwood, Phelps Dodge Copper President Edgar P. Dun-laevy, Cerro Vice President Richard H. Lewin, Scovill Sales Manager Maurice Liston, Mueller Vice President Alfred C. Dappert, Bridgeport Brass Vice President Richard L. Allen, and John M. Dumser, assistant to the president of Bridgeport Brass...
...concert opened with the delayed World Premiere of Junior Fellow David Lewin's Essay on a Subject of Webern for chamber orchestra. The work is derived from the second of Webern's Op. 28 string quartet; but its material is wholly original--the melodic declaration often seems closer to the manner of Arnold Schoenberg. Mr. Lewin has employed considerable economy in composition, and the piece is concise, clear and very pleasing; the wind writing, in particular, shows considerable delicacy and precision. Mr. Senturia and his orchestra brought to the work the same assurance and competence that marked the entire program...