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...last week this wish neared the border line of reality. Henry Ford, 77, gleefully swung an ax with all his lanky might against the plastic rear end of a special Ford car. Then he pointed to the un dented, unmarred finish, announced his company would be mass-producing plastic-bodied automobiles in at least one, at most three years...
...thousands of light, near-collision-proof plastic automobiles ever roll on U. S. highways, a notion and a man should get the glory. The notion was Henry Ford's: that man should go back to the land, that the use of agricultural products in industry should be multiplied. The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown...
...dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...
...cross to O'Brien, who, like most Irish-American males, is a violent Notre Dame fan in spite of the fact he teased their marching song at parties with a parody beginning: "Shame, shame on old Notre Dame. The Jews and the Polaks have stolen your game." Some plastic work to spread his nose and blondined hair and eyebrows change the O'Brien face into a reasonable facsimile of Norse Knute Rockne. When Bonnie Skiles Rockne, who was brought to Hollywood for technical advice, had her first look at O'Brien's makeup, she pleased...
...Geertruida Zelle MacLeod), who, she recalls, had a perfect posture, a walk as slinky as a stripteaser's. Mata Hari was much interested in the surgery being done on a young French soldier whose nose had been mutilated. Else LaRoe watched the operation, too, and her interest in plastic surgery dawned. She went to Heidelberg's medical school, started on general surgery interspersed with birth-control work in Russia. Her birth-control book published in Germany has been burned by the Nazis. She settled down to plastic surgery 15 years ago, emigrated to the plastically profitable...