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...crashed his airplane and lost his arm in Galicia he woke up in the dismal fairyland of his cracked brain. His head hummed like a drunken beehive, but above that noise he heard the menacing approach of a blind man's tapping stick, saw visions of a beautiful porcelain woman who comforted him. To flee the blind man he hides away in an obscure hotel in Budapest, drinks brandy by the bottle, neat. Finally his longing for the porcelain woman overcomes his terror of the blind man. He leaves the hotel to try to find her in the world...
...Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House for the Thunder Mug (the original gold plated porcelain trophy) when number 7 jumped from his slide at the second stroke but counted his flesh as naught against the race? Or the famous regatta in which the Bell-boys, their whiskers blowing to the winds and their derbies cocked proudly, rowed through the whole fleet to the plaudits...
Faraday of Frigidaire. In 1926 Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. attended the Refrigeration Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. He wandered from porcelain box to porcelain box, listening to the various degrees of humming, observing the efficiency of freezing power. One refrigerator caught his attention and he had a long talk with the man who stood beside it. The man was red-cheeked Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Sweden's No. 2 tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that...
...which they were certain caused infantile paralysis. The organism measures less than one-half millionth of an inch. The investigators- Drs. Charles Eglof Clifton, Edwin William Schultz and Louis Philipp Gebhardt-figured the size by filtering material from a case of infantile paralysis through the pores of unglazed, fine porcelain. They knew the size of the pores. The filtrate caused the active disease in monkeys. That confirmed the doctors' belief that they possessed the cause of the disease. "A very, very interesting addition to knowledge," said Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan's great immunologist...
Swedish and Norwegian glass and metal work fill another case, the exhibition illustrating what effect can be produced by proportion alone, without decoration. All colored objects, such as pottery and porcelain, are exhibited separately, and include candlesticks, plates, and a cigarette box decorated with enamel...