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...good show. The Air Force had been working on it for five months. It had cost "several million" dollars. Wood and canvas buildings, erected as ground targets, cost some $5,000 alone. Nearly 4,000 men helped set the stage, polishing all the aircraft with NEVR-DULL wax, and shining trucks that the President never saw. For the press, 23 special telephone lines and eight Teletype machines were installed. For the President. 20 white telephones, each with a White House decal, were spaced conveniently along his route...
...smoothly up the drive, stopped before a crowd of 500 clustered near the striped canopy, and out stepped silent Film Star Mary Piclcford, 69. "Hi there," said she with a dear smile, only 3 hours and 15 minutes late to preside over the dedication of movieland's first wax museum, a $1,500,000 white stucco building in Buena Park, Calif. Among the 65 sculptures already inside are tableaux of the Barrymores in Rasputin and the Empress, Gable and Leigh in Gone With the Wind, Pickford and Second Husband Douglas Fairbanks Sr., whom she divorced...
...WAX BOOM (307 pp.) - George Monde/- Random House...
Tough, able Sergeant Riglioni, himself only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...
...seminary reflected the ortho doxy of its early teachers. The first professor hired, Dr. Archibald Alexander, was a strict, commonsensical Calvinist who believed that God's truth in the Bible was like a seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons...