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Last week, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dr. Myerson displayed to a gathering of top-flight U. S. dentists his new invention: transparent-tipped, natural-looking false teeth set in ruddy gums of a new plastic material. Exhibit A was a beaming colleague, fitted with a well-worn set of brownish, irregular teeth. "How becoming they are," exclaimed Dr. Myerson, "to the rugged character time has produced in his face!" As one man, the dentists rose and applauded the teeth, applauded bold Dr. Myerson...
...reason why U. S. aircraft cannot be mass-produced is that airplanes and their engines are still largely hand-built, precision jobs. Last week an airplane designed for mass production with a minimum of handwork was flown in California. It was Timm Aircraft Corp.'s blue-&-gold plastic plane-with wings and fuselage pressure-molded from thin spruce plywood and liquid plastic (like the bakelite of radio panels), then baked in an oven. Test Pilot Vance Breese (who has designed and produced another plastic model) put Timm's plane through its paces, convinced at least one Army observer...
...recent article on Picasso in the Kenyon Review, Wyndham Lewis refers to the figures in "Two Seated Women" as "empty, pneumatic giantesses." He goes on to say that these nude women have neither a plastic nor a pictorial justification. Mass, he adds, can be conveyed more successfully be other methods. Now Mr. Lewis, an artist himself, should know better than to make such statements. In the first place, who said that Picasso was trying to convey mass? No one except Mr. Lewis and the catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. And both are mistaken. Rather than enter upon an "a priori...
...rich enough to do what he pleased. He converted a stable in his back yard into a laboratory. He found that phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde interacted to make a non-melting, non-dissolving solid like nothing in nature. This was Bakelite, foundation stone of the synthetic plastic industry. After forming General Bakelite Co. (later Bakelite Corp.) to exploit his discovery, Baekeland methodically listed 43 industries in which he thought it would be useful. Today it would be hard to find 43 in which it is not used...
...type of "happy thyroid" who always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps of the City Hall. He was the first man to arrive at the scene of a subway accident, the booted and helmeted director at every...