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...must be buttressed in several places. Bierweiler makes plaster supports which fit under stems, leaves, or petals wherever necessary without obstructing anything. Then, with a dentist's drill, he makes a fine hole in the plaster through which he runs a thin silver wire to tie down the delicate spray. The system is not only artistically beautiful but efficient. The plant is always turned to catch the light perfectly. While the flowers are continually being cleaned and freshened, there has been no damage from vibration despite the lumbering trucks that patrol Oxford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Louis Bierweiler Outlasts Everything but His Glass Flowers | 11/27/1953 | See Source »

...ninth round, Bobo's spray of pokes had begun to slow Randy's reflexes. Turpin let himself get trapped against the ropes, and there, while Bobo poured hooks and jabs to the head and body, Turpin unaccountably covered up only his midsection. Randy went down for a short count at the end of that round, for a nine-count in the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Sugar's Crown | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...Dulles and U.S. policy has always been the military solution. To parade our military might all over the world-into backward countries where we have no business ; spray our brother with jellied gasoline and set him on fire; burn his women and children with atomic fire. Christianity?-These are the works of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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