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...sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while others, for some unknown reason, will last only a few7 hours. When he is creating a new perfume he does no sniffing, simply jots down a formula, claims he knows exactly what the final result will smell like. Says Beaux: "It is like writing music. Each component has a definite tonal value ... I can compose...
...Odor of Dead Fish. At wit's end by Feb. 3, 1927, Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against...
...screen test clinched Wyler's decision to make the picture on which it was based. He had considered and rejected most of the obvious Hollywood beauties for the part. He picked Audrey not so much on the basis of her talent as on the fact that she was unknown, and could not therefore be spotted through the royal disguise. The only trouble was that Audrey refused to stay unknown...
...playing actress who was virtually unknown thus signed up, almost simultaneously, to star in a Broadway play and a Hollywood movie...
...Unknown World. Since Adam Smith, economists (and politicians) have gone a full circle. In his time, capitalism was revolutionary and liberal; today, in the minds of many, it is reactionary. In his time, the idea that the state must control economic affairs Was reactionary; today, for millions, it is the only true liberalism. All but extreme partisans agree, nevertheless, that modern American capitalism is a different brand, never envisaged by Marx, not yet seen by Veblen, probably not fully understood by Keynes. Contemporary economists of all shadings worry about it-fearing that it may collapse under its own weight...