Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Percy Marks, 65, onetime Brown University English instructor who intoxicated the '20s with The Plastic Age, a near-beer novel of college loose life compounded of watered-down Freud and hoked-up Fitzgerald; of cancer; in New Haven, Conn. Novelist Marks quit teaching after his book got banned in Boston (1924), became a bestseller and a Clara Bow film. He later wrote several lukewarm potboilers and a few textbooks, eventually drifted back to English teaching. Embers from the red hot prose that set the Jazz Age afire: "The musicians played as if in a frenzy, the drums pound...
...Alhambra, but because an architect has dreamed of the marriage of Frank Lloyd Wright and a silo . . . The public that lives in the houses our architects design ... is a broadminded, tolerant, adventurous public, one that has triumphed over inherited prejudice to an astonishing degree. You can put a spherical plastic gas tower on aluminum stilts, divide it into rooms, and quite a few people will be willing to crawl along saying, 'Is this the floor? Is this the wall?,' to make a down payment and call it home...
When the satellite finally reaches space it may be followed on its orbit by a frail, light, short-lived companion. Developed by William J. O'Sullivan Jr. (following a long-discussed idea), the inflated sub-satellite is a balloon of Mylar plastic .0025 in. thick covered with an aluminum film .0006 in. thick. When released from the third-stage rocket, it will weigh 10½ oz. complete and look like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first...
...entire industry. Says American Can's President William C. Stolk: "We just don't want to acquire companies for the sake of expanding." But last year Canco expanded into fiber milk containers; this year it bought the Bradley Container Co. and branched into plastic bottles. Unless the Justice Department wins its antitrust cases, chances are the container industry will go right on making bigger packagers out of littler ones...
...Hiroshima Maidens" are 25 Japanese girls who were badly burned when the A-bomb fell on their city. Japanese plastic surgeons tried to restore their terribly defaced features, but scar tissue kept coming back. Partly under the sponsorship of Editor Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, the girls were brought to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital last year for another try (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955). Their case was sometimes exploited politically in a horror campaign against U.S. use of atomic weapons, but the story quickly turned into one of medical triumph. Last week the first before-and-after...