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Mirko Basaidella, Lecturer on Design, Theodore Lux Feininger, Lecturer on the fine Arts, and James Sloss Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, will judge the paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography. Prizes totalling $30 will be awarded...
...long as he had Stalin's blessing, Ulbricht neither needed nor wanted close friends. In Moscow's Hotel Lux he enjoyed not only the companionship of his Berlin-born girl friend, Lotte Kuhn,-but also the comfortable knowledge that each purged comrade meant more room for himself as he scrambled toward the top job in Communism's German party. No one cherished leadership more avidly, nor curried favor with the Kremlin more expectantly. When the Hitler-Stalin treaty was signed, Ulbricht dutifully put his pen to work in the pact's support. "Whoever intrigues against...
...blaze with artificial light to speed the flowering of their plants, must pay heavily for electric energy, and much of it is wasted on light that plants cannot use. For florists, and for housewives who grow African violets in dark apartments, Sylvania's special fluorescent lamp, called Gro-Lux, may mean a significantly smaller electric bill...
...plants, the new light seems twice as bright (gives off twice as much usable energy) as it does to humans. Bathed in its lavender glow, leaves look dark blue-green, and Electrical Engineer Joseph Roland Morin, head of the team that developed Gro-Lux, predicts a great future for the off-color plant lamp. Long before it lights up indoor farms, it may be a boon to commercial florists. "In 20 years," says Morin, "you won't see any more conventional greenhouses...
...Moon (Michael Relph; Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired...