Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the seven passengers on the Philippines Air Lines DC-3 that morning was a young Chinese in a leopard-skin jacket. As the plane took off from north Luzon's Laoag Ilocos Norte airport, on the coast of the South China Sea, the passengers settled down for the routine half-hour flight to Aparri. Suddenly the plane lurched into a 45° bank. Purser Eduardo Diago came down the aisle reassuring passengers: "That was a terrific downdraft." He tried the handle of the pilot's cabin, tried again, and began hammering on the door. Then the passengers...
Ostensibly, Thornton Niven Wilder was in Europe to finish a new play and to work on a book of essays. But as usual he was finding it impossible not to be obliging. The three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) was not acting like an orthodox author. In his 55 years, he rarely...
...Flood. After such a quiet play, Wilder's rambunctious The Skin of Our Teeth proved to be a jolt-so much so that some 75 backers promptly backed away. It was a sort of Hellzapoppin with brains, the story of Everyman (Mr. Antrobus) and the whole human race. Its action spread over 5,000 years, took in the Flood, the Ice Age and Armageddon. "Our Town" says Wilder, "is the life of the family seen from a telescope five miles away. The Skin of Our Teeth is the destiny of the whole human group seen from a telescope...
...full-length mink coat takes up to 80 carefully matched and graded pelts. Each skin is sliced diagonally into dozens of strips, less than a quarter of an inch wide. Then the strips are sewn back together to form a two-inch-wide piece of fur equal to the length of the coat. These long swatches of fur, in turn, are sewn together to make the coat...
Plastic Painkiller. Larson Laboratories of Erie, Pa. put on sale a spray-on plastic to make easier the removal of adhesive bandages. Squirted on the skin before tape is applied, the Adhesive Balm Spray (containing Monsanto's Santicizer No. 8) forms an antiseptic, stainless plastic film, later permits dressings to be peeled off with almost no pain to the patient...