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...trouble with such complicated chambers is that they operate only for a brief period after the air has been rarefied. Brookhaven's simple chamber works continuously. It consists of a metal plate standing on a layer of dry ice and covered with black velvet for better visibility. On top of the plate sits an open-ended glass cylinder anywhere from 5 to 17 inches in diameter. A second metal plate with a layer of felt cemented to its under side is placed on the cylinder. On top of the whole apparatus is a tray of water at room temperature...
...night came Earnest I. Sligh, his swarthy, leering face hidden by the velvet lapel of his midnight-blue cloak. He slithered into the CRIMSON and darted into the hall closet. "Shhh," he hissed to the managing editor...
...Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron modeled her latest play to the tennis galleries: leopard-skin panties. Undecided what to wear on her six-month tour of the country, she thought it would be "something simple, made out of better material than the dresses for amateur matches"-perhaps black velvet panties "completely covered except when I move...
...mayor of Albany proclaimed a "Grandma Moses Day" last week, and the famed little upstate New York artist bustled in from Eagle Bridge, 30 miles away, to help celebrate it. Wearing a perky black jersey bonnet with a velvet chin strap, and a corsage of sweetheart roses presented by her three-year-old great-granddaughter, Grandma accepted the keys of the city. Then she went on to grace the opening of a show of 60 of her paintings at the Albany Institute of History and Art. Some 600 people milled through the gallery, gaping at the artist and at such...
Young (26) Author Timothy Angus Jones is the son of Sir Roderick Jones, onetime chairman of Reuters news agency. His tightly written novel is smooth and credible. But his mother, Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold, could teach him a thing or two about storytelling...