Word: nylons
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...original in its feeling. The Broadway production was as intimate as a hotfoot; the Goldwyn movie takes a blowtorch full of Eastman Color and stereophonic sound to get the same reaction. More specifically, a couple of the principals do not quite deliver. Brando as the gambler has a nylon slickness and the right occupational crimp around the eyes. He dances, too, in one wonderful piece of mambo-jumbo, with a kind of animal rapture that moviegoers will want to see more of but he sings in a faraway tenor that sometimes tends to be flat...
...discovery of the yarn was a fluke. During World War II Switzerland's Heberlein and Co., and France's Billion et Cie. were trying to find a way to make ersatz wool. They failed to do so, but in the process made a nylon yarn that would stretch. In the Heberlein method, fibers are twisted, and the twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft...
...industry pattern for peace. Burlington has also joined up with a domestic competitor, Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, Inc., and organized Patentex, Inc., to handle licensing. By last week, Patentex had taken over 51 domestic and 47 foreign licenses. The industry was ready to produce-and to promote. Led by Nylon Manufacturer du Pont, more than a million dollars worth of advertising has been scheduled for the fall to create a bigger demand for stretch yarn and its many new products...
...presidential airlifting by the Air Force as well as the Secret Service. (On one test flight the plane was flown from Bethany, Okla. to Washington on one engine.) It has a cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., can accommodate two passengers and two crewmen (on comfortable seats upholstered in blue nylon). Its cost to the Government: approximately $75,000. The President has not christened the plane yet, but the crew calls...
...hand to a murderous shambles in a Turkish bath where Roderigo (Robert Coote) is trapped and killed, screaming beneath a slatted runway. When Welles strangles Desdemona, it is the most artistic strangling ever: he presses a silken scarf over her face, outlining every agonized feature just as if a nylon stocking had been pulled over her head. When Welles stabs himself, there is a good five minutes of reeling walls and ceilings as he takes his time about dying...