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...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...
...sets, and photographs of sculptors' and architects' efforts. It has Gluyas Williams cartoons, and a sketch by Robert Edmond Jones of a set for Richard III, "Now is the winter of our discontent." Its paintings range from primly conservative New England garden-scenes to John Holabird's gay Mexican pot-pourri...
...That the Hemisphere's richest melting pot of past architectural styles is Mexico, which is today a museum of native, European and Asiatic styles...
...lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken...
...book of reminiscences, Past Imperfect (Doubleday, Doran; $3), broadcasting Actress Ilka Chase cut loose from the Nice Nellyism required by radio, let her pen run on without inhibitions. Sample (of her youthful meeting with Novelist George Moore): "Moore was a spindly-legged, pot-bellied, bejowled little man, and he unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose...