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...trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden...
...notable one in the news last week was Mayor James John Walker of New York. One of his good friends, a Mrs. Clarabelle Walsh who lives in the Hotel Plaza, advised him to drink the stuff because "he was suffering so." Three times a day he squeezes the rubber bulb of a device called a "Radiumator," which supplies water with short-lived radium emanation. Experts say that aside from the psychological effect, the only good derived is from the quantities of water imbibed, none from the emanations. But Mayor Walker, with the persistence of a convinced self-medicator, declared last...
...Jersey, also on the same day, Arthur Harry Moore's inauguration as Governor barely escaped tragedy when a photographer's flashlight bulb exploded almost in the new executive's face as he was taking the oath of office...
...light-telephone, devised by John Bellamy Taylor, translates sound into electrical impulses (as does an ordinary telephone) and then through a neon bulb into a pink wave of light. The receiving set catches the light in a photoelectric tube which translates the message into electricity, then sound. Dr. Taylor has telephoned by this system across the Hudson River, a distance of about 3,000 ft. Anyone with a proper receiving set who could see his sending beam, could hear what he said...
...tennis and bag punching. For versatility's sake he wrote The Science of Poetry & the Philosophy of Language. Hudson Maxim's older brother was Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), one-time apprentice coach builder. He tried to beat Edison to the invention of the incandescent electric light bulb, invented a machine gun which loaded and fired itself automatically by its own recoil. He also invented a smokeless powder, tried to invent an airplane, became a British subject, was knighted. "Dr. Shush'' (Hiram Percy Maxim) is his son. Another child is Mrs. George Albert Cutter of Dedham...