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Puffing nervously at a thin cigar, vigorous, talkative Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee) strode about the galleries of the National Academy of Design, of which he is president, last week on the Academy's 110th varnishing day. Buttonholing critics and newshawks he kept insisting...
Setting of Pylon is the city of "New Valois." New Orleanians will quickly pierce the thin disguise, will wryly admit the biting likeness of the "Feinman Field" to their own "Abe" Shushan airport, reclaimed at enormous expense from the waters of Lake Pontchartrain. Dubious hero of the tale is a nameless and quixotic reporter, who is covering an airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other...
...gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
...last week the reflecting surface of Mount Wilson Observatory's 100-inch glass mirror, world's largest telescope reflector in use, was covered with a thin film of silver. If it were coated with aluminum, as all Mount Wilson astronomers have long wished, it would quickly acquire a protectively oxidized surface, it could be cleaned with ordinary soap and water and it would seldom if ever have to be removed from the telescope tube...
...sealed tank from which pumps suck almost all the air. Within the tank is a coil of tungsten wire covered with aluminum. When the wire is electrically heated the aluminum boils off as a vapor which, when it strikes the mirror's cool surface, condenses in a thin, even film...