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Iceman Uline guaranteed weight and measure, cut his cakes with a machine that left extra ice to allow for meltage. He developed a cubing machine now sold around the world. Today he sells four sizes of ice cubes - rice, chestnut, nut, egg. For 45? he gives 20-minute delivery of 100 cubes plus a cocktail recipe. His record order was for a 1936 jamboree of 3,000 delegates to the Third World Power Conference in the rotunda of Washington's Union Station, where Iceman Uline deposited 25 tons of ice cubes...
Such clubby use of the Washington exchange was nothing new: it is one of the nation's most informal financial institutions. Its office is a single 20-by-40-ft. room on the sixth floor of the Washington Building (which also houses a nightclub, a liquor store, a nut shop, a division of the U. S. Treasury). At 11:15 each morning (10:15 on Saturdays), twelve to 15 of its 40 young members (only two are bald) gather on the floor to smoke, talk politics, discuss sporting events, occasionally trade in 40 stocks and nine bonds for their...
...nudes, short on frock-coat portraits and winsome nymphs (exceptions: Simon Moselsio's sloe-eyed Nude, John B. Flannagan's dreamy bronze Mother and Child-see cuts). None of the pieces showed any recognizable relation to the U. S. scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts...
...peasants of Thailand, comprising 80% of the country's population, are well-built, short-statured, brown-skinned, good-natured men, chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind...
...Captain Gregory supposedly persuaded his mother to cut out its soggy centre (wherein was a nut...