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Chemistry is one of the sciences that became important before it knew what it was doing. The old, half-magician alchemists of the Middle Ages were acquainted with many useful compounds and reactions, but they had no rational theories about them. Early chemists, dropping the magic, gradually developed general principles...
MUSEUM PIECES, by William Plomer (282 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is an expertly-fashioned literary paradox: a sad comedy that turns into an amusing tragedy. It is about a couple of leftovers from Edwardian England-Toby d'Arfey, a brilliant, sardonic dilettante who was born in 1900 and develops into...
¶At New York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and...
The parliamentary: opposed only by three delegations (which voted for U.S.-backed Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand), the Assembly elected as its president The Netherlands' Dr. Eelco Van Kleffens, 59, a meticulous and skillful diplomat who knows law, economics and four languages. Van Kleffens, for seven years The Netherlands...
Rosanna Carteri, 23, guest star at Milan's La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, etc., had the crowd swooning from the moment she walked on stage as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She reminded one critic of Italy's "gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised...