Word: wax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin-born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...
...midnight last week, squads of red-capped MPs and Egyptian security troops poured from their posts throughout the land, arrested 450 leaders of the nationalist-terrorist Moslem Brotherhood, sealed most of its 2,000 headquarters with red wax and confiscated its property worth $8,500,000. Egypt's new revolutionary regime had at last found the decision and strength to break the fanatic group it once found necessary to appease. Said a communiqué: "The Revolution will not allow a recurrence of the reactionary tragedy in the name of religion." A quarter century ago, an intense young theology graduate...
...expected big-grossers: From Here to Eternity (Columbia), $12,500,000 Shane (Paramount), $8,000,000; How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century-Fox, CinemaScope), $7,500,000; Peter Pan (Walt Disney; RKO Radio), $7,000,000; Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio), $6,000,000; House of Wax (Warner, 3-D), $5,500,000; Mogambo (M-G-M), $5,200,000; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century-Fox), $5,100,000; Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists), $5,000,000; Salome (Beckworth Corp.; Columbia), $4.750,000; The Charge at Feather River (Warner, 3-D), $3,650,000; The Caddy...
July: The war in Indo-China will wax hotter. Secretary Dulles will announce that the U.S. is ready to fight in Indo-China. On the same day, Secretary Wilson will say that the U.S. will never fight in Indo-China. Considerable confusion will be followed by an announcement by the President that all further statements on Indo-China must come directly from the White House...
...goods) and the spread of self-service selling, even to department and drug stores. The self-service supermarket has not only trimmed distribution costs enough to cut its average markup to 16%, but it has done much to change the manufacturer's selling methods. Johnson's Wax, which was once sold primarily through hardware and department stores, now moves mainly through supermarkets, which now sell dozens of items that have no connection with food...