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...Earnest Hero. Grandfather Alexander Milne Calder was born in Scotland in 1846, worked for a while as a mason in Aberdeen before taking off for the U.S. at the age of 22. Calder vaguely remembers him as "a remote, awe-inspiring (because he worked on such huge things) figure for me." Indeed, Grandfather's works ran to the heroic. Among his most famous works, a model of which is in the show: an erect, earnest-looking young William Penn who stands to this day, every bronze ruffle and curl in p!ace, on top of Philadelphia's city...
...Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...
Died. William Smith Mason, 94, historian and philanthropist who labored for 35 years to collect Benjamin Franklin's papers, donated the priceless collection to Yale in 1936; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...Mason suspects that kaolinite and other "trainable" particles are carried up to 35,000 ft., where the temperature often falls to -60° F. There they gather a little ice, forming thin, veil-like cirrus clouds. When they fall through dry air, most of the ice evaporates, but tiny bits remain trapped in crevices. When these ice-seeded particles get mixed with a moderately cold cloud, they make it yield snow or rain. Mason argues that much of the earth's precipitation is wrung out of clouds by just such "trainable" earth-dust particles. Kaolinite and other kinds...
...selling, at first tried to cut into the lucrative moonshine market by selling Georgia Moon in the usual narrow-necked bottles (Brown-Forman also puts out a narrow-necked corn). But it had little success in bucking the ingrained habits of shine drinkers, who like to drink out of Mason jars, the South's traditional moonshine container. After dickering with the Treasury, Viking got permission last month to put its corn likker into Mason-jar fifths (retail price: $3.50 to $4.50, depending on the state, v. about $4 for a quart jar of moonshine), has watched its sales suddenly...