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...dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento-profile scale; another is "facial moulage," a life mask...
...customer Vultee Aircraft announced a $9,000,000 expansion at Nashville. Aluminum Co. of America's aluminum sheet (for planes) plant at Alcoa, Tenn. is the only Alcoa sheet plant in a U. S. prime defense area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will be Tennessee Powder Co. at Memphis, now being built by Du Pont engineers with British money. Of the new ordnance plants planned...
...York newsmen held a mass interview last week with refugees of the war. Aboard the S.S. Samaria when she steamed into New York Harbor were 138 British children, tagged, labeled, carrying knapsacks, duffle bags, copies of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, gas-mask containers crammed with tuppenny treasures, dolls, souvenirs. Reporters and officials who boarded the Samaria at Quarantine found the refugees assembled on the tourist-class afterdeck. While they gazed at the skyline of Manhattan, they were singing There'll Always Be an England...
Such statements, highly suggestive to students of Goethe, will appeal still more intricately to readers who are interested in what degree Thomas Mann identifies himself with Goethe and uses him, here, as a mask for talking...
...world that they are not superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...