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...home. In Hartford, Conn., Moses Berkman's wife, Florence, is especially helpful on stories dealing with art, since she is both an ex-reporter and a member of the Hartford Art School Board. But Louis Brustein, Bridgeport, Conn., attributes to his wife an unusual aptitude: her patience in peeling onions. "This vegetable has a lot to do with journalistic success. When people are helpful in getting stories for TIME, we always gift them with a gallon or so of my superspecial onion soup ... I love to make onion soup, but hate to peel and slice the onions...
Potato Peeler. An automatic potato-peeler attachment for electric mixers was put on sale by Univex Products Co. of Somerville, Mass. Home-A-Peel, which can also be used to peel apples, onions and oranges, has an abrasive disk which rubs off thin peelings and pulverizes the waste. Price...
...stage of human affairs." His stage was the toughest strip of the Sydney waterfront. He organized a wharf laborers' union. Hobo life had given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon...
...Sieve calls his pills phosphorylated hesperidin. Plain hesperidin, known for years, is related to so-called vitamin P. These preparations have been tried with indifferent results in a variety of ailments, from kidney disorders and psoriasis to radiation sickness. Hesperidin comes from orange peel and could be made about as cheaply as aspirin in mass production...
Aboard the Queen Mary, bound for England and a summer of television work, Actress Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) refused to give photographers a cheesecake pose, instead favored them with a winning smile and a ladylike version of the traditional ship's-rail picture...