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...fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...
...smoke and influence. His role in the Party was to collect the funds that subsidized heelers and won elections. He persistently opposed labor legislation, old-age pensions because such laws cost businessmen money. The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill he still regards as his masterpiece. A bachelor, he wears high button shoes, smokes Havana cigars, burns Texas oil instead of Pennsylvania coal in his plants because it's cheaper...
...glass with one hand, hunts for missing toys, turns pages one at a time. At three he likes to solve ball & box puzzles, builds a ten-cube tower, turns sharp corners while running, pedals a tricycle; at four he can broad-jump, throw a ball overhand, draw a man, button his clothes; at five he skips, stands on one foot, dances to music, carries a tune, washes his face, likes to wash dishes...
...patent No. 2,187,664 was granted to John L. Rogers of Hazleton, Pa., for a mechanical rosary which counts prayers by means of a push button...
...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...