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Painting Priest. Hit of the show was Haiti's entry: 28 stiffly drawn, riotously colored genre paintings and still lifes by such esoteric unknowns as Hector Hyppo-lite, a voodoo priest who claims his brush is guided by St. John the Baptist; a 24-year-old ex-houseboy named Castera Bazile, and Louverture Poisson, a mechanic in the Haitian Air Force. They were all the proteges of a self-effacing young U.S. artist with a mission...
...brought new markets : popcorn substituted for scarce candy, went over seas to lend a homey touch to military lite, was eaten in bars and cocktail lounges by a nation which was drinking with both hands. Result: unprocessed corn soared from the prewar price of $1.57 (for 100 Ibs.) to $3.86. From then on, Oklahoma farmers needed no more urging. Typical was 44-year-old Tom Earnest of Okfuskee County.' Tom Earnest had worked his way up from sharecropping "by trying things...
...Love Lite"-a small boudoir lamp that exudes an aphrodisiac fragrance...
...bluejacket was sweating a little in his clean and faded dungarees. His answers came jerkily and he was nervous. He was being tested for admission to the U.S. Navy's corps d' élite, the submarine service...
...Glassless windows, made of transparent plastic sheets laminated to standard wire screening, were developed by Monsanto Chemical Co. to reduce wartime danger from flying glass. Also used at the Ensign-Bickford fuse factory, this reinforced Vue-lite promises postwar office and home partitions so light and strong that they may be easily rearranged...