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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since radio's tonsils are frequently more highly prized than its brains, Mel's flexible voice is often called in to save an otherwise disastrous show. He can portray 57 different characters, often does eight or ten on a single program. Once the record turntable for sound effects failed. Blanc stepped up to the mike and, using only his voice, squealed like a skidding auto and did a corking good imitation of a bottle being opened and poured. For Warner Bros.'s cartoons, he is the voice of Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny...
...Philharmonic's conductor, Austrian-born Erich Kleiber he sent a message in Spanish: "To save the sublime music of Beethoven, I request your cooperation as a colleague." Replied Kleiber: "In order to save the sublime music of Beethoven you need a good orchestra...
...eyeball). Eyeman Terry says that pupil-contracting miotics (e.g., morphine, nico tine), if administered soon enough after birth, would knock the percentage down to 1. Other early babies are born with lento-cornea (adhesion of the lens to the cornea). A simple operation, if performed soon enough, can save their sight...
Mantz will save about 75 of his planes to rent to movie companies at $100 to $300 a day, scrap the rest. He estimates that the aluminum alone will bring in $160,000; manufacturers of novelty jewelry will buy the plexiglass for 10? a pound, etc. Mantz hopes to make $1,350,000 on his junk deal. But the Reconstruction Finance Corp. thought that he was a bit optimistic. Its estimate of the scrap value of Mantz's planes...
...Library buildings can and will be replaced," say the authors, "... the archives that record the history of a city or a nation may never be." Sometimes the very efforts of scholars to save their archives were what destroyed them. Reports the Bulletin: "When the great library of the Chapter of St. Thomas [in France] was threatened, it was hurriedly evacuated for storage in a rural area. There the books were destroyed ... by rain, mold, rats, mice and insects." The library itself was never damaged...