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...newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...
...favor of the scythe versus the sickle, awarded a silver medal to a nine-year-old artist prodigy named John Millais. By publicizing methods of preserving fish, it was largely responsible for establishing the British salted fish industry; by offering rewards for the invention of an effective chimney brush, it ended the necessity for chimney sweeps...
...Namatjira is one of Australia's most popular and successful artists. His bright, pleasant watercolors of the rugged scenery around Hermannsburg sell in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaïde and Brisbane for as much as $170, and last year he earned about $5,000 from the products of his brush...
Snagless Slider. A jamproof slide fastener, called "Conmatic." was brought out by Conmar Products Corp. Other jam-proof fasteners on the market have hinged or removable sliders. Conmar, taking a preventive approach, designed a slider with ridges and grooves that either brush away obstructions or, if that fails, stop the slider in its tracks before it can catch...
...Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...