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...such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed...
...office in Racine, Wis., Jervis J. Babb, executive vice president of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (floor wax), got an unexpected phone call from New York City. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of the global Unilever soap empire, had never met Jerry Babb, but he wanted to. Would Mr. Babb have lunch in Chicago that week with him and Paul Rykens, boss of Unilever's Dutch affiliate...
...eternity"-though it is not exactly the kind of eternity Elizabeth may have had in mind. It was current a few years ago in a hit play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, and in a Hollywood movie in which Robert Browning and his wife appeared like figures in a wax museum-faintly distorted, prettily tinted to public fancy...
...developed much of an appetite for the song until January, when a strong-lunged little singer named Eileen Barton decided it was to her taste and National Records thought it was worth putting on wax. Her bouncy version, complete with hand clapping and group singing, was just the frosting Merrill's ditty needed. Disc jockeys, singers and jukeboxes began serving it up in more & more generous helpings...
When he began actual operations two years later, Hugo took an artist's pains with his work. He soaked a real $5 bill in water and then-in a maddeningly delicate operation-split it in two. He oiled the halves until they were transparent, laid them on wax tablets covered with photosensitive jelly, and exposed them to light. After that, he brushed the two tablets with fine graphite, suspended them in a copper sulphate solution with pieces of pure copper and made master plates by electrolysis...