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...speaks of his recent change in occupation, Bentinck-Smith leans back and surveys his new Massachusetts Hall office. "It's kind of a wrench to change your whole way of life," he says. One of his favorite contrasts is the linoleum floor of the Bulletin's Wadsworth House offices with his present red carpet. "I sometimes wonder," he concludes, "if I'm not a linoleum man at heart...
Carver had one great objective: to free the South from industrial bondage to the North. With tools originally assembled from scrapheap oddments, he developed more than 300 synthetic products from peanuts, including cheese, soap, flour and linoleum, and more than 100 products from the sweet potato. "I go into the laboratory," he once said, "and God tells me what...
When jaded appetite and flat wallet demand food that is at once exotic and inexpensive, the answer is Chinatown. From plush oriental trappings, reminiscent of a tong-war movie, to a chrome and linoleum decor, Chinese restaurants provide all setting for your meal. Prices are standard, staggered between $1.50 and two dollars, and the menus vary little between the different places...
Laborites with uneasiness, he dipped into the budget box for the details: ¶ Slashed: the onerous purchase tax. The levy on furs, jewelry, cosmetics and similar luxuries dropped from 100% to 75%; for automobiles, vacuum cleaners and the like, from 66.6% to 50%; for carpets, linoleum, domestic hardware, clocks, watches, toys, etc., from 33.3% to 25%. To halt the disappearance of the London taxicab (TIME, April 20), the heavy purchase tax for London cabs was abolished. ¶ Discontinued: entertainment taxes on amateur theatricals, amateur sporting events and professional cricket matches. "In this country, cricket occupies a special place among sports...
...pictures of the year. If the Whitney is right, it was a great year for introspective tube-squeezing and brush-squiggling. Typical example of the nonobjective work that dominated the show: William Baziotes' Phantasm, with weird blues, greens and mauves melting across the canvas like sherbet on warm linoleum...