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During the nuptial week he had a thin time of it. The newspapers paid little attention to him. Some who met him at parties and receptions described him as a disagreeable young man utterly uninterested in everything and everybody. After the wedding breakfast, while other guests, led by George VI, pelted Philip and Elizabeth with flower petals, Michael held aloof, finally walked away...
...cockroaches, which wear their smellers conveniently on their antennae outside their bodies. They put oil of cloves vapor (attractive to cockroaches) behind a gas-tight window of material transparent to infrared. The cockroaches responded to it just about as strongly as if the barrier were not there. When a thin sheet of glass (opaque to infrared) was added to the barrier, the cockroaches showed no more interest in the window than when there was no oil of cloves behind...
This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...
...hits the ball. He insists, like most golfers, that the game is the most trying of all sports ("It is the only sport where the ball is still. There is so much time for contemplation of every move you're going to make that the nerves wear thin"). But his nerves seldom show...
...rock crystal Easter egg rimmed with diamonds and topped with a rare 27-carat Siberian emerald. By twisting the emerald and peeking into the egg, the Czarina could see twelve gold-framed miniatures of her favorite palaces, radiating from a thin gold axis...