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...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison, tough Gangster Alvin Karpis, onetime Public Enemy No. 1,-* asked for and was given two books: Salt Water Fishing, An American Angler in Australia...
...tremendous sensation whistling over the salt at 347 miles an hour. Whistling is the only word I know to describe it." Thus spoke mustachioed, 41-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston, British auto racer, after driving his seven-ton, eight-wheeled, 3,600-h.p. Thunderbolt 13 miles along a black line on Utah's famed Bonneville salt flats one morning last week. His time for the measured mile (preceded by six to speed up and six to slow down) was the fastest land mark ever made-*-36 miles an hour faster than the world's record...
...spectators who lined the course at a safe distance, Thunderbolt, zooming at nearly six miles a minute, looked like a flame (from the exhausts) streaking through a cloud of salt. At the finish of the run, 200-lb. Captain Eyston had trouble getting out of the cockpit. "I had a devil of a time," he chuckled. "The heat of the motor must have swelled my body...
...destroyed by combination with oxygen or improper cooking. Last week in Nature, Physiologists A. Høygaard and H. Waage Rasmussen of the University of Oslo, Norway reported the results of extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when vegetables are cooked in salt solution than when vegetables are cooked in distilled water." Reason: the salt prevents oxygen from destroying the vitamin. They also found "considerably more ascorbic acid in cooked than in raw potatoes." Reason: the ascorbic acid is partially "frozen" in raw vegetables, becomes released in the boiling process...
Last week in Wilmington. N. C. (pop. 32,270), a downtown building recently occupied by an undertaker's parlor was undergoing a cheerful change. Carpenters and painters were remodeling it into studios, workshops and an art gallery. In Salt Lake City, Utah (pop. 140,267), the old Elks Club building near Brigham Young's Theatre had by last week undergone a similar transformation. In Spokane, Wash. (pop. 115,514), a downtown store building, rebuilt into galleries, studios and work rooms, was preparing for its first art show. For these cities the appearance of Art in the business district...