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...quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic ($13-35 for 50 feet). In the routine descriptive words of garden men, it was "guaranteed to last...
...pound class Yardling Bob Dennison ran into a Dartmouth light-weight, saved up for the Harvard match, and was pinned in 2:24 of the third period while at 128 Jim Birney, substituting for the injured Indian captain, Bob Bach, decisioned Pete Knox...
Irascible, fact-conscious Kenneth Roberts, a heckler of historians and probably the most widely admired of U.S. historical novelists, is said to have spent six years on Lydia Bailey, grubbing details from archives, translating French sources, writing and polishing the text. Even so, Lydia is a pretty light-weight performance. But the first printing (including Literary Guild) is rumored to be 1,000,000 copies. Hollywood's 20th Century-Fox has already bought the story for $215,000. As a narrative it lacks the fire and dramatic punch of Northwest Passage, the unity and cogency of Oliver Wiswell...
Scientists are working hard to find some light-weight shield to replace the masses of lead, concrete or water they use at present around their "bad-acting" apparatus. A composite shield may prove useful; but it too will be massive and costly. No "magic shield" is in sight...
Album of Songs and Spirituals (Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor; 8 sides). A collection of light-weight items including Massenet's Elégie, Comin' Thro' the Rye and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, sung with Contralto Anderson's characteristic sincerity and velvety voice. Recording: excellent...