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...years Chicago Cartoonist Russell Stamm, 40, drew his comic strip Scarlet O'Neil without attracting much attention. Then, two years ago, into the big-city adventures in the strip ambled Stainless Steel, a Texas sheriff far from home. He had flowing blond hair and the physique of a Michelangelo statue. "In general," drawled Stainless, "heroics is mah business." His business soon proved so successful that the number of papers taking the strip from the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate rose from 126 to 148 (including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most...
BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD, second biggest in New England (after the New Haven), will spend $11.2 million to revamp its passenger service, has ordered twelve diesels. a fleet of 55 high-speed, self-propelled stainless-steel commuter cars to be built by Philadelphia's Budd Co. Delivery date...
Today, even in Britain few people could say precisely who Gordon was, what he was doing in the Sudan, why and by whom he was murdered. Still less could they say what there was in his character and acts to justify his becoming "the Stainless Knight of the century." Chinese Gordon answers these questions-but in such a way that if the old Queen were still alive, she would again experience difficulty in speaking...
...first number was the opera's famed Casta Diva (Stainless Goddess), which, while not Norma's most difficult number, is hardly a piece to warm up on. She threaded her way carefully but spiritedly through the opera's complicated cadenzas with a generous use of her pearly pianissimo, came dramatically and vocally into her own in the second and third acts and at the end, despite signs of weariness (she began to sing sharp), won a personal ovation. Most thrilling moments: her soaring duets with Mezzo-Soprano Fedora Barbieri...
Last week they told about a new alloy, Thermenol, which is made of cheap, plentiful materials (iron, aluminum and a little molybdenum). It resists heat and corrosion better than some kinds of expensive stainless steel, and it is 20 to 25% lighter. Lufcy believes that it may eventually become as common as ordinary iron...