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Chopin: Fifteen Waltzes (Alexander Brailowsky, pianist; Victor; 14 sides). Russian-born Brailowsky, who has given marathon performances of every note of Chopin's 169 pieces, plays these nervous, undanceable dances with great dash and glitter...
...Marathon Strides. Highly enterprising is Marathon Paper Mills of Rothschild, Wis., makers of food containers and chemicals. In 1927 Marathon summoned Chemical Engineer Guy C. Howard, gave him a platoon of Ph.D.s and the job of finding more profitable channels for waste lignin than the Wisconsin River. Today, after 15 years of research costing some $2,000,000, Marathon adds lime to its waste liquors, precipitates out calcium lignin sulfonate, turns it into...
...road-binding material, lignin is widely used in New Jersey and Washington instead of tarry binders. This use was developed in the U.S. about 1905 by Jacob Robeson, pioneer industrial student of lignin. Robeson Process Co., unlike Marathon, removes lignin from pulp wastes by evaporation rather than by precipitation...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
...university "would sooner shut down than allow a union shop" said William Ford, chairman of the Yale News, by telephone last night. Unless Mooney is successful in mediating between Yale officials and the university this morning, the strike may develop into a marathon to see which faction can hold out longer...