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Edgar Bergen waltzed onto the floor of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week with blonde, willowy Podine Puffington, who "speaks" with a syrupy Southern accent. Though only five feet tall, Podine has a 32-inch bust and 19-inch waist. Because of her light plastic construction, she weighs only 25 pounds...
...present Maria has 300 foster fathers in the U.S.-all members of the 13th Port Veterans' Association. They contribute the customary $180 yearly toward her support, and are helping to pay the cost of a long-and as yet unfinished-series of expensive plastic operations on her face. Maria writes to them regularly...
ROBERT H. IVY, M.D. Professor of Plastic Surgery University of Pennsylvania...
PRESTON C. IVERSON, M.D. Plastic Surgeon Pennsylvania Hospital, and Memorial Hospital, N.Y. Philadelphia...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...