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Hollywood Pin-Up. In going after the big buyers, Alcoa was not neglecting little markets. Typical was the "Hollywood Pin-Up," an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, "Alumilite," at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds...
...have been an Irish contractor, since so many of his friends are hod carriers and steel workers). But of some things they may be sure, like their parents before them: Jiggs can't stand his wife's friends, lives in daily fear of her well-aimed rolling pin and crockery, but will never hit back. And there will never be a continued story in Jiggs. Says McManus: "I give...
...Hardrock Club." Its membership: White House aides and newsmen who had accompanied him on his successful vice-presidential campaign tour last year and on the trip to Potsdam. The name refers to the time Harry Truman and the newsmen went down a Montana copper mine last year. The club pin: a golden miner's pick...
Hitler tolerated no such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...
What worries the experts most is the layman's tendency to pin hope on every test-tube success. But doctors continue to write up their results and risk the dangers of publicity because any test may give the clue some other worker needs...