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Behind the massive, masklike face that looks like something out of a Coney Island mirror, the Angel is not a bad egg. Well-manicured and groomed, his pilgarlic pate usually covered in public with a beret, he reads authors such as Paul Bourget (Le Disciple), speaks hoarse but genteel French and smatterings of four other tongues, avoids crowds when...
When famed German Chemist Baron Justus von Liebig made the first modern mirror 105 years ago, he poured his new silvering solution from a laboratory beaker on a pane of glass, gave humanity the best look at itself it had ever had.* He also left a formula which U. S. manufacturers used last year, little changed, to turn out some $50,000,000 worth of mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars. The curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most...
...coming to him. For since his last holidays Chemist Peacock had tried thousands of formulas to modernize Liebig's process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror on every bedroom door...
...years after he left the U. S. Navy in 1919, Chemist Peacock worked unsuccessfully on a process to prevent tarnishing of silverware. He became the only mirror consultant in the U. S. ten years ago, when Hires Turner called him in to see what was wrong with its silvering solution. Amazed was William Peacock at pitcher-pouring. So he went to work on a new process, managed to support his Peacock Laboratories meanwhile by supplying advice, standardized silvering solution, special rubber gloves and other mirror-making accessories to the trade. Near last year's end he found the answer...
...them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs: strolling down the Long Walk, which bisects the campus; necking on the banks of sulfur-smelling Mirror Lake...