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...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Homemade Gas Masks | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post slogans. Sample: "Don't wipe your mouth on the tablecloth; use a paper napkin." Goodwillman Fairbanks was lionized by Rio society, cheered by 50,000 football fans. Asked by newspapermen why Hollywood presents so distorted a view of Latin-American life (see p. 34), quick-witted Actor Fairbanks replied that Hollywood often presented a pretty distorted picture of U.S. life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...alimony to four ex-wives, is one of the outstanding answers to the prayers of chorines in Manhattan, Hollywood and points between. He is also a prolific inventor, an untutored natural master of electrical mechanics who has been known to devise a complete electrical control system on a luncheon napkin. Like Henry J. Kaiser in a different field he belongs to that completely individual type of miracle man that flourishes chiefly in the U. S. For years he has had the radio and aircraft industries in a mixed dither of admiration, envy and dislike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Brash Young Man | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...begin to see the truth embodied in Mr. Phillips statement. Cezanne manages to create something besides the object which he is representing; and that "something" which he creates is the basis of his painting. Take the still-life piece in which we find some fruit and a napkin lying on a table. Now the apples possess. To go further, we may say that Cezanne's painting of an object is, in reality, a presentation of that object's essential characteristics; the object itself, as something which actually exists, is lost; what we find on the canvas is the form...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Zooming mysteriously from under a table in the main salon, the bird cooed ceiling-ward into the porch amid hysteric screams from several waitresses and roars of glee from the students. Apparently frightened by the cries of the napkin-bedecked eaters, the creature flapped helplessly about the ceiling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGEON FLIES INTO UNION DURING SUPPERTIME RUSH | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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