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...scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
Fourth Quarter 1960 1959 METALS American Metal Climax .70 .67 Harvey Aluminum .25 .20 CHEMICALS Hercules Powder .71 .66 Union Carbide $1.35 $1.49 FOOD & LIQUOR National Biscuit $1.15 $1.14 DRUGS Norwich Pharmacal A3 .37 TOBACCO American Tobacco $1.19 $1.17 Philip Morris $1.34 $1.26 MISCELLANEOUS Minneapolis-Honeywell...
...music, in his 16th century country home in Touraine, because "like wine, which can grow only in its own soil, I can compose only in France." Originally, he intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala, and he is now working on yet another religious...
...fluff various kinds of plastic into spherical particles that are mostly empty cells and almost as light as air. Miss Raskin's particles can be colored, and they fall 1,250 times slower than solid smoke particles of the same size. Collected in the form of a fine powder, eleven gallons of holey smoke particles weigh less than one pound...
...girl beneath the wig, rice powder and rubber eyelids was Hollywood's Shirley MacLaine, the rowdy, redheaded comedienne (CanCan, The Apartment) whose behavior, both on and off screen, is more gusher than geisha. She downed her sake like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason...