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...Form 10161 J, complete with "article submittal notice" and return envelope, the technical press editor of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. offered newspapers an illustrated story stating that Westinghouse engineers had examined the hair of Film Actress Jean Harlow with a Westinghouse color matcher and found it real platinum color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Matching Machine | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...father's ire? At dinner that night he had a carnation in his buttonhole. It was the exact duplicate, in minute detail, of Mrs. McKinley's carnation, which Father Jacob had found. "Michael," said Jacob, who had the original in his pocket, "you're a good matcher." Michael was all Of that. It was he who brought together the pearls of a Philadelphia financier's $1,500,000 necklace. That was the Dreicers' masterpiece, and Michael spent more than half his life creating it. He died in 1921, his father a month later. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tears for Love | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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