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...Alfred David Lenz created a sensation among metallurgists. He showed roses, bits of cabbage leaves, delicate orchids, the spiny heads of Queen Anne's lace, in which every tiny vein was preserved in solid bronze, cast from the objects themselves. Later he exhibited a series of statuets, most of them not over 8 in. high including their bases, which were cast not in one but in four or five metals at the same time...
Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...northern Rhodesia. Down a wide lane through the forest he spied a roan antelope, shot it. U. S. copper producers wish he had dropped a rabbit instead. For in its death struggle the antelope kicked up the ground, revealed that the forest lane was caused by a rich vein of copper ore, 200 ft. wide, 10 mi. long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Now owner of the vein is Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd. Six years ago Roan had not been formed. Two years ago it was not producing commercially. When last spring the coppermen of the world...
...Everything's Rosy" includes some of O. Soglow's cleverest ideas. The picture of Lady Godiva, for instance, is in his best salacious vein. And all New Yorker readers should howl with laughter over the new antics of that inimitable king of O. Soglow. But once in a while, one has the feeling that the humor is strained. O. Soglow has hoped that his name would excuse bad ideas, or perhaps that his drawing would put them over, which it almost does...
...infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers might revolt; they might even try manufacturing their own beer...