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Poor Mrs. Ann Meyer with her oven-roasted chuck [TIME, Aug. 30]. I can sympathize. As a bride I once tried to fry a hen which was intended for fricassee. If Mrs. Meyer will learn to braise and potroast, she will enjoy many delicious roasts, stews, Swiss steaks...
Winston Churchill, a sturdy monogamist himself, pointed out the loopholes to prospective wife-killers. If you are anxious to avoid hanging, he said, "you can strangle her, hold her head in a gas oven . . . stab her, cut her throat or bash her brains out. If you can arrange a procedure, you can set her on fire, push her off a station platform in front of an oncoming train, push her through the porthole of a ship, or, more easily, you can drown her in the bathtub...
Carl Milles has always preferred a studio. Born in Sweden, he started modeling early, baking his clay in his mother's oven and avoiding school as much as possible. His father began to think his delicate son was a dullard. "Send the boy to me. I'll make a man of him," a friend wrote the father. Milles set out, "but I stopped in Paris. I stopped in Paris forever. For six years, I didn't write home. I was excited about...
They made a small amount of pyrites containing radioactive sulphur and mixed it with a coke-oven charge of coal. They roasted the coal and measured the radioactivity of the sulphur remaining in the coke. A very low level of radioactivity would indicate that most of the pyritic sulphur had been driven off, taking with it the radioactive tags. A higher level would show that the organic sulphur had been eliminated, leaving behind the pyritic sulphur. Actually, the radioactivity of the sulphur fell between the two extremes, showing that both forms of sulphur stay behind in the coke. The experiment...
...brought home The Origin of Species; his father, who had heard fearsome things about the ungodly Darwin, looked it over, said, "I can't make it out. But I think the man is honest. Read his book." Young Lib hatched snakes' eggs in his mother's oven, began a small collection of plants, made notes on the weather...