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...crackpot processes, is there one he dare not miss? To date at least 20 ideas have been considered worth investigation. Nothing new has turned up. There are half a dozen ways to make rubber-about 50, if impracticable processes are included. More than 1,000 plants are known to contain latex, from guayule (TIME, Dec. 29) on down. WPB experts are open-minded, but rubber samples are hard to analyze. So chemists often don't know what they contain...
...They may contain new or reclaimed rubber, which makes them useless in solving the rubber shortage; or the process may be a marginal one, already rejected. Some of the scores of ideas, good...
...even in those early days before the brain child Jubilee was weaned, wide awake undergraduates saw the possibilities in the venture. The Crimson on May 11, 1915 praised the entire idea editorially, noting that "it will contain more than a bare hint of social attraction . . . The occasion will be both educative and enjoyable...
...plays are a bright, shifty blend of parable, poem, ballet, vaudeville, dream and relaxed ad-libbing. At their worst they contain, as Saroyan confesses, "careless and cheap feelings . . . cleverness and petty bitterness, spoofing and kidding, vulgarity here and there perhaps. . . ." At their best they meet Saroyan's requirements for art: "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder. . . . The excitement it creates is not that of fear or loathing or irritation, but the excitement of revelation, understanding, love, and delight." Now & then Saroyan's spontaneity has the revelatory abruptness of a magnesium flare...
...arrived at the stage door an hour before curtain-time, as required. The Metropolitan Theater, designed as it was for movies, does not contain the ultimate in dressing rooms as far as mob scenes are concerned. With a crowd of other supers--all male--from B. U. and the Boston Conservatory of Music, we were herded into a basement room full of electric motors and gen- erators and told to strip. When we had reached suitable stages of deshabille we betook ourselves to the boiler room to receive our apparel...