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...cinemansions, which sell $500 million worth of popcorn and candy a year, had something new last week to interest moviegoers who merely want to see and hear the picture: a porous popcorn bag that is not only crackle-proof and explosion-proof but cannot (its manufacturers claim) be filled with water and dropped from the balcony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Silent Movies | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...head for a television audience, and hustling video men, seeing that moisture was being recorded on the studio screens, breathlessly described it as the first "spiritual manifestation" in television history. A local Unitarian minister wondered: Could it have been saliva from the girl's lips? The head was porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: St. Anne's Tears | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson's recent success. During the team's dismal early season, Coach John Chase was shifting from lineup to lineup in hopes of coming up with the right combination. He found the answer in the January Dartmouth game when he shifted high scorer Carman from wing to reinforce the porous defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Game Is Season Pay-Off | 2/16/1949 | See Source »

This archaeological device looks like a porous blotter. When forced down on an inscription it takes a reverse copy of the characters underneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frye Cliff Walks, Parlays Persia Hunch into Winner | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Winthrop exhibited a porous defense and an inability to move the ball on offense. Its most sustained drive reached the Davenport 15, mostly via the air, when the final whistle sounded. Harvey Thayer was Winthrop's most effective ground gainer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Takes House-College Garlands; All Other Houses Fall Before Yale Rivals | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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