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...Washington, a famed chemist, Dr. James I. Hoffman, gave a sure-fire method for thwarting Halloween window-waxers: rubbing a thin coat of vaseline on glass surfaces before the young fiends arrive. Once windows are waxed, he explained, they can best be cleaned with gasoline, kerosene or turpentine...
...lack of it-in a wormy provincial British university "near the borders of England and Wales." The leading spirits there are all husks and cinders, all genteel pedants dead from the neck down. Worst of all is 53-year-old Professor White (beautifully played by Leo G. Carroll), whose thin blood has turned to bile, and who hates youth pathologically, not just as something that has vanished, but as something that never came...
...appearance than for any particular modieum of talent, George Sanders as Charles II displays the one lone semblance of real acting. DeMille-ish mob scenes, thousands of costly costumes, and the inevitable Technicolor lend a kind of facade of quality to something that is basically sham, but the too-thin vencer cannot completely hide a story that in essence is little but a collection of vicarious sexual experiences tacked...
...sector of Berlin last week, a thin-faced German picked up a copy of the Daily Bulletin, a Mimeographed paper for American employees of the occupation government. The first item caught...
Panning out the thin gold in Nevada's Carson Valley in the 1850s, miners cursed a heavy blue sand that clogged their rockers. In 1859, "Old Pancake" Comstock and three others, playing a hunch, staked out a 1,500-ft. claim around the mouth of a small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...