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...laudable and sanitary. This is the sort of no-frills domesticity that would appeal to Macon Leary, also from "Bawl-mer" and the main attraction of Anne Tyler's tenth novel. After his wife leaves him, Leary reduces homemaking to an antic science. A percolator and an electric corn popper hooked up to a clock radio allow him to wake up to brewed coffee and popped corn. Bed making is eliminated by stitching a sleeping bag from a sheet. To save time and kilowatts, the laundry is thrown into the bathtub and stomped clean under the shower...
Onetime tourist regalia, a fanciful means of selling what Writer DeSoto Brown calls "the paradise business," Hawaiian shirts flared into full fashion in the 1950s: President Harry Truman, grinning broadly, appeared on the cover of LIFE wearing a typical eye-popper in 1951. Not long after, the vibrancy of the colors and liveliness of the prints became synonymous with yokeldom and ugly Americanism, what every cartoon American tourist would wear under his camera straps and over his walking shorts, sandals and nylon ankle socks...
...least one member of Falk's award committee was familiar with tales of Eppinger's past. Dr. Hans Popper, 80, former dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a pre-eminent hepatologist, was a student of Eppinger's in Vienna in the 1930s. Popper's feelings toward his former mentor are ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life...
...were just nice and convenient. Example: medicine cabinets that light up when touched. Still another: a hot-air popper for gourmet popcorn. Earlier models did not work with such popcorn because of extra moisture in the corn...
March 10--Meselson, after weeks of poring over snow samples, declares that the source of the coloration is not a Harvard chem lab at all but The Corn Popper on Mt. Auburn St., whose "secret process" for flavoring popcorn strawberry, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring, cinnamon and blueberry involves releasing puffs of food coloring into the atmosphere. In developing a new line, "We got a little out of control, I guess," apologizes the store owner...