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...lecturer, he has a colorful, dynamic style. In describing the Bengali flood plain he can wax eloquent, or in quoting Macauley he can turn on a mild, elegant English accent. His oratorical style has brought one student to complain that. That rooms they give him are too small. He'd sound better in Memorial Hall...
...Wipe & Wax. Racine's (Wis.) Johnson's Wax Co. put on the market Jubilee, a combination wax and cleaner for kitchen stoves, refrigerators, walls and woodwork. It removes greasy cooking films, stains and smudges, leaves a hard, protective wax coating. Price of one pint, enough to clean...
...Viviana, a cheerful, blowzy blonde with a wide circle of friends in the spirit world, was confident that she could do away with anyone's husband with the aid of four chicken hearts and a measly 54,000 francs. Auguste produced the desired articles, obediently stuck pins in wax candles at Viviana's command, and waited. In almost no time, Lucienne's husband, bursting with health, returned from the Cameroons to his willing wife, who no longer had time for Auguste...
...abstract crystal and the amorphous potato: precise landscapes splashed with blocks of colors that happen to interest him. When Piper finds a combination he likes, he uses it again & again. He continues to look for new combinations and new techniques. His spare time lately has been spent with wax-crayon colors and in floating paint on water in a bathtub, then lifting off the bright swirling patterns on to a piece of paper. He will have a Manhattan show next year, and is "fiddling around" between. themes. "I don't think I'll ever go back to abstractions...
Throughout the vote, Bevan sat smugly with lips pursed, eyes straight ahead and plump fingers tipped together. Morrison was motionless. Clement Attlee stared into space, lifeless as a wax model...