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Highest high jinks: Charles Laughton having himself a wonderful time in the turret of Notre Dame, playing the bells with his feet, swinging apelike from the bell ropes, dropping building blocks and raining a vast cauldron of molten lead through gargoyles' mouths down on his fellow citizens in the square below...
Researchers at Corning put a dish of preshrunk glass on a cake of ice, then poured molten iron into the dish. It did not crack...
...about 1870 railroad rails were made of iron because the cost of making steel in quantity was prohibitive. Then the converters invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper. In Bessemer converters-little changed after 70 years-a powerful blast of air is forced through molten pig iron as it lies in the converter's capacious belly. The air oxidizes impurities which form a slag or pass off as gases through the converter mouth. After the slag has formed, the steel is poured into molds to make ingots...
Cure-All. Clarence William Hazelett is a taciturn man with a small metal works and a large mission. His Hazelett Metals Co. of Greenwich, Conn. licenses a process and sells machinery for making molten metal directly into sheets (instead of rolling sheets from ingots). His mission is promoting the doctrine that all the nation's economic ills can be cured by incentive taxation...
...late to abologize" anecdote (labeled in TIME'S story as probably apocryphal) has been told of more than one conductor, including Toscanini. But Toscanini is the most improbable choice. Reason: his English, at its coolest, is limited, expletive, disconnected. In a tantrum he invariably erupts molten Italian...