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...each story, conversation imperceptibly tends toward discussion of high issues. By Saturday lunch, everybody is busy writing the stories; conversation then tends to be scattered with suggestions for pithy statements. By Sunday lunch, the conversation centers round the impossibility of fitting several gallons of material into a pint pot. By Monday the atmosphere is much more cheerful. On Thursday everyone is saying that last week's magazine was an exceptionally good one after all-especially in other people's sections...
...Pot Calling Kettle...
...value of Fox's holdings in Pennsylvania is hard to run down, chiefly because he has so many personal drilling deals, works through so many individuals and companies other than U.S. Leather. For those reasons, Wall Streeters are still skeptical of his latest projects. But Fox thinks the pot worth the gamble, especially since a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California is spending more than $500,000 to drill a deep well near some of Leather's holdings. By going deep enough, it hopes to find a new oil pool that was missed before. Says Fox enthusiastically: "Standard...
...wind of some lab apparatus hooked together by a science freshman for elementary experiments. If that can pass muster as a still in and around Harvard we suppose it's all right. But we'd like to see the CRIMSON editor bring his find down here to the real pot-still and moonshine country. Amateur distillers here-abouts are polite, but they'd probably have a hard time staying so when they inspected the dainty jars and chromium pipes that constitute a collegian's still...
Herbert's object is to show his audience (estimated at 850,000) what goes on in the world-why the wind blows, what makes a cake rise, how water comes out of a kitchen tap. To explain rain, he boils water in a coffee pot, compares the steam to clouds, and shows how "rain" will condense on the sides of a glass held over the spout. He demonstrates static electricity with a charged rubber comb, lets it pick up a cluster of cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using...