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...first plastic car was shown by Henry Ford in Dearborn last week. It was the product of his own long dream-that industry should use more farm crops-and of the chemical inventiveness of his protege, 32-year-old Robert Allen Boyer (TIME, Nov. 11). His plastic, 70% cellulose with a resin binder, is made of soybeans, wheat, cotton, hides, plus a few imported, now hard-to-get ingredients (cork, rubber, tung oil, ramie-formerly used to wrap Egyptian mummies). Last fall Boyer turned out a few panels, had his lanky boss whang at them harmlessly with...
Blunt-nosed, cream-colored, the plastic Ford looks much like any other 1942 automobile. It has a standard Ford 60 chassis, engine, wheels. But the plastic body cuts its total weight from 3,000 lb. to 2,000. The body consists of 14 panels (formed in 1,000-ton presses) attached to a tubular steel frame...
...first glance the young British flight lieutenant looked mischievous, boyish; at second glance as if he wore a Mephistophelean mask. And a mask it was-a mask of his own skin. He was a ghastly triumph of plastic surgery. He told Manhattan reporters how his Spitfire had been shot down 28,000 feet over the English Channel. As the plane burst into flames, he pulled off his oxygen mask, bailed out. When picked up, he was terribly burned on his face and hands...
Love for Barring and a chance encounter with a famed plastic surgeon (Melvyn Douglas) remake Anna's life. After a stern course of surgery she emerges as beautiful as she was meant to be-and free to pursue her guilty calling under a perfect camouflage. A murder is planned for the purpose of removing the one bar to the aristocrat's inheritance of a fortune. By her eventual revolt against this slaughter Anna rejoins the world which had cast...
...International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers are compelled to wear inside their caps, Muscle Man Medwick seems to be back in the groove: in eleven exhibition games he batted .395, hit nine home runs...