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...made the year's prize wallpaper was from Copenhagen. His winning design was a hand-blocked strip of black & white leaves and flowers on a grey background. Judges also liked a busy strip of his, full of little men running like all get-out (see cuts). Bent Karlby also designs houses to paste his wallpaper up in. During the war he redecorated a Danish resort hotel, from chandeliers to ashtrays. When comfort-loving Nazis took it over, Karlby hurried home to print an underground newspaper in his cellar. The Nazis almost caught him, but he escaped to Sweden...
...trivision" negatives (as the Navy calls them) are reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...
...ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...
...Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think what I might have become," he says, "hand I followed most of the other 'Gretties' to Harvard." From biography of W. Averell Harriman, Life Magazine, December...
...galaxy is full of such "globules" or unborn stars, which look like black patches against the starry background. Professor Bart J. Bok of Harvard found 23 of them silhouetted against a single glowing nebula. They probably weigh much less than the sun, but are several thousand billion miles in diameter...