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...publicized and most meticulous painter of deliquescence and decay, gave his new bride, the late Publisher Joe Patterson's daughter Josephine, a $125,000 present (his own estimate). The present: his famed That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do-a careful study of a mouldering wax funeral wreath on a grumous door...
...planes were mostly stripped-down ex-Army pursuits-wax-covered P-38s, fat-bellied P-51 Mustangs, and a Kingcobra with two feet chopped off each wing. They roared down the runway at the Van Nuys airfield, zoomed above the Hollywood hills...
Hardy was still a boy, Author Cecil Doints out, when he became obsessed by the monotonous, changeless elements of village tragedy-"the drama of broken love and wronged girls, the feuds and the hangings . . . the witchcraft and the wax images." The laborers of "Wessex" (Dorsetshire) lived in clay cottages and raised families on seven shillings (less than $2) week. At 15, Hardy was already so appalled by the menaces of adult life that he longed to remain a boy forever. By the time he was 18 he had seen a man and a woman publicly hanged. Soon after, when...
...Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Pink String and Sealing Wax stars Googie Withers, who was none too careful about that cleavage (see cut). The Hollywood Codists-who convinced themselves that Hollywood's Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice were morally clean-have raised eyebrows over the British picture's theme: premeditated murder...