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...took a master's degree in home economics at Cornell, is a young housewife who knows how to turn out a lemon pie. One day husband Robert, a chemist in Westinghouse Electric Corp.'s Pittsburgh laboratories, got to wondering if anything on earth was fluffier or lighter than Margery's meringue topping. That helped him along with a scientific idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...other materials, finally hit on a phenolic resin as the best. This week, Westinghouse claimed that Sterling's "meringue," made by heating the resin with a catalyst to 350° F., was the world's lightest solid. At any rate, it was ten to 20 times lighter than the fluffiest pie topping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vincent by Candlelight | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Television. Radio Corp. of America unveiled its long-expected 16-inch metal television tube (see cut). It is 18½ lbs. lighter than those made of glass and with mass production will eventually reduce the price of 16-inch television table model sets to "about $400" from the present price of $495. To meet the new competition, Corning Glass Works announced that the price of its 16-inch glass tubes, in mass production, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Facts & Figures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world cruise and writing a show (Jubilee) on the way. He broached the idea to Porter at lunch. Recalls Hart: "Cole said: 'Let's go to Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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