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Only commercial station in the country that devotes 80% of its broadcasting day to classical music, WQXR needed some such catalyst as a mad night" at the Waldorf before it could go the whole way in recognizing jazz...
When Hollywood mixes sweet and inexperienced Olivia deHavilland with Charles Boyer, as a cynical Rumanian gigolo whose past is as dark as his Latin complexion, a strange alchemy results which, with Mexican clime thrown in as catalyst, generates plenty of heat during most of the show, but often just fizzles...
Method he hit on was to grind green coffee beans, extract the soluble alkaloids (notably caffeine) and part of the oil, cook the remainder under pressure in the presence of a catalyst. The result is cafelite, a dark brown powder which can be colored like other plastics, can be used to make anything from ashtrays to building materials. Out of a Brazilian bag of coffee (132 lb.) the Polin process makes 70 lb. of cafelite, 1 lb. of caffeine, plus smaller amounts of other byproducts, including vitamins...
...Lady helped San Francisco be what many a citizen wanted it to be-a wide-open town. She furnished bail by the gross to bookmakers and prostitutes, kept a taxi waiting at the door to whisk them out of jail and back to work. But she was also a catalyst that brought underworld and police department into an inevitably corrupt amalgam. At her retirement the San Francisco Chronicle waxed nostalgic: "The Old Lady . . . will take to her rocking chair, draw her shawl about her. . . ." But many a citizen thought simply: "Good riddance...
Baly records some curious experiments. In his laboratory in 1928 he achieved the photosynthesis of formaldehyde, glucose, starch, other organic compounds in a test-tube solution of carbon dioxide. As a catalyst he used nickel carbonate instead of chlorophyll (which no chemist has yet got to work outside the veins of plants). But neither Baly nor any other chemist, using identical methods, has ever succeeded in repeating the experiment...