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...train at Tangerine, Fla., one day last week, climbed a seamy-faced, balding Philadelphia chemist named William Peacock. He was on his first vacation in ten years and he figured he had it coming to him. For since his last holidays Chemist Peacock had tried thousands of formulas to modernize Liebig's process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror...
...much experiment he chose Plexiglas, a mixture of monomers (methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, etc.) which hardens into a glassy plastic. In blocks of this stuff he immured small dead frogs, a tarantula, the bones of a human hand (see cuts); a rattlesnake's head, complete with fangs, a peacock feather, an iridescent butterfly, a garter snake, flowers, ears of corn, ears of barley. Secretary Wallace, Dr. Sando's chief, keeps a 13-inch ear of hybrid corn, forever young and fair, imbedded in Plexiglas on his desk. Spectators marveled last week at the realistic look of tiny hairs...
Sister Clodagh, the Superior, found no trouble in keeping herself and the other four nuns busy. Anxious to help, the general bribed the suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...
...ROSCOE PEACOCK North Cohocton...
...Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace. There the King of Kings will be pleased to stand in front of the $50,000,000, 17th-Century Peacock Throne and watch file past him diplomats, ministers, army officers, notables, all clasping their hands on wrists to show they carry no weapons, all bowing heads in profound deference to the August Presence. Unhappy the lot of a mere commoner who should by chance say "Your Majesty" instead of "Your Imperial...