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...What," the reporter blurted at the editor of World Picture magazine, "would you consider the greatest news story of all time?" The reporter thought he had it: a research chemist had just synthesized sunlight and seaweed into a wonder food, Nutro 29. One box of pills no bigger than a pack of cigarettes and probably just as cheap would feed a man for a month...
Burlington, which calls Orion "one of the most significant textile developments in the past ten years," thinks that manufacturers may soon be turning out men's all-year suits which can be washed along with the family laundry (Orion's resistance to sunlight and mildew also makes it suitable for auto tops, awnings and shower curtains). But most U.S. consumers will have to wait for Orion until Du Pont gets into volume production later this year...
...stop off only at museum pieces such as Belgium's Bruges-"a lovely stuffed bird." If, on the other hand, your stomach is strong enough to take the parfumerie with the campanile, the tinsel bambino with the David of Michelangelo, the abysmal filth with the supreme sunlight-then make your pilgrimage to the cities of Italy, remembering always the words of a loth Century Irish bard...
...skillful academic portraits and genre paintings (which looked rather like illustrations for Emile Zola) won Munch a government grant to study in Paris for three years. There he learned to paint sunlight almost as eloquently as the impressionist Pissarro, and to handle line and color with something like Gauguin's fluid grace. When he decided to forget the fashionable philosophy of art for art's sake and paint "living beings" instead, Munch was as well equipped for the job as any artist in Europe...
Except for two muggy days, the weather at Key West, Fla. was fine. The sky was blue, and out beyond the rustling palms, sunlight glittered on the turquoise shoals and cobalt deeps of the Gulf of Mexico. The nights were cool. But as he settled down for his eighth vacation at the lawn-bordered "Little White House," Harry Truman seemed less intent than usual on savoring the joys of sunburn and exercise...