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Kill or Be Killed, directed by Len Lye, is a sample British Army training film, which quietly dramatizes the protracted, silent, sinister contest between a Nazi sniper and a British soldier. The British soldier is as stolid and unheady as a pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft...
...antiseptic soaps are not true soaps made of fat and lye but the recent "soapless soaps" (TIME, Jan. 5). The most powerful disinfectants among them are complicated organic compounds based on ammonium. Their use in softening, cleansing and disinfection is due to a positive charge on the organic part of the molecule. It is strongly attracted by protein, thus apparently seizes on the proteins of bacteria. By the only known test the bacteria are dead, i.e., they no longer increase and multiply bacteria...
This is at least as simple as the present method of making alumina from bauxite ore, which is by no means pure when mined. Its gross impurities, such as sand, are removed by crushing, washing, sifting. It is then dissolved in hot caustic soda or "lye," which does not dissolve the subtler impurities. When the hot lye cools in towering tanks, pure aluminum hydroxide separates from it and is ready to be baked and electrolyzed...
...wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory (at 20) and Sing Sing (at 21), Buchalter developed from a small-time loft burglar into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with...