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...university's Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...
Also: "Grind to a powder the seed of the carpenter plant, the gum resin of the markazi plant, and thyme, then dissolve it in beer and let the man drink...
...among the first perfumers to take to the radio in the U.S., as early as 1923 plugged face powder on his Evening in Paris program. He then brought out a perfume by the same name, sold it first in the U.S., later introduced it in Paris. Today, at $3 an ounce in Paris and $12.50 in the U.S., it is his biggest seller...
After his release from a Communist prison camp in Korea last week, a thin, boyish-looking Nisei soldier from Gallup, N.Mex. went through Freedom Village's routine processing: a puff of DDT powder, a quick physical examination and a cup of ice cream. Then, to his astonishment, Sergeant Hiroshi H. Miyamura, 27, was pulled out of line and led to a rosette of microphones in the press area. While cameras whirred, Brigadier General Ralph Osborne, commanding officer of Freedom Village, made an announcement. "I want to take this occasion to welcome the greatest VIP, the most distinguished guest...
Ferocity & Strain. Artist Sutherland is a man who knows how to make a perfect Martini-ice-cold and powder-dry. His paintings have much the same silvery, piercing sharpness, but with none of the Martini's soothing effects. His subjects are full of ferocity and strain. He likes best painting roots, insects, husks, stumps, and most of all, thorns, isolating and enlarging them in his canvases as if he were painting monumental portraits. Beginning with a sketch from nature, Sutherland transforms it into a half-abstract reconstruction of a half-recognizable object...