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President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
...glass-enclosed bridge looking down on a huge map at the R. A. F.'s Fighter Command GHQ, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding last week kept tabs on these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved...
Down in Tigertown Tad Wieman is assembling the strongest Princeton team since the golden days of Fritz Crisler. The passing combination of Allerdice to Stanley will be one of the best in the land and will test the Harvard aerial defenses to the limit...