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Great Tasks. Making has chapters on how men learned to use machines and power, how goods are transported from maker to user, how factories are located, organized, operated, plus detailed studies of the making of food, clothes, airplanes, houses.* The child may learn something about division of labor, distribution, unemployment, technology, rationing...
...bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into an aria from Tannhäuser...
When Marjorie Lawrence left her paralytic's wheelchair last winter to make a seated comeback in Tannhäuser (TIME, Feb. 1), many an operagoer shook his head as he applauded. It was brave business-but where was it leading? For all her good looks and magnificent voice, the soprano simply could not walk. She seemed limited to undemanding roles that could be sung lying down. But in Montreal last week Marjorie Lawrence sang the whole great, exhausting part that Richard Wagner wrote for Isolde...
Fourth largest user of radium is the research physicist, and most of the world's radium outside hospitals is to be found in university and other research laboratories. Radium lasts a long time: one gram will be half a gram in 1,580 years...
...orchestra surged into the Tannhäuser Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...