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...Buster Keaton was about to be a comedy star again, for one picture at the very least. The sad-eyed Great Stone Face of the silents was making his latest comeback try in Mexico where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...
...human proton-buster's problem: how to make a machine that approaches the power of a cosmic ray bullet. The most powerful machine in existence (General Electric's betatron) develops 100 million electron volts. Physicists now aim at one billion volts. The big news at Berkeley: they are getting warm...
Late in 1937, when young District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was adding a high score of convictions to his reputation as a gang buster, New York City banks were plagued by a series of big-money forgeries. The methods indicated the work of a master crook. The forger had been seen -by bank clerks who cashed the forged checks. But there were no clues, other than that the forger claimed to have an office at No. 39 Broadway...
...have Batsmen Bob (.324) Johnson and Ervin (.315) Fox, little else. The loss of Third-Sacker Ken Keltner leaves Cleveland with but one top-drawer infielder, Shortstop-Manager Lou Boudreau. Dynamic Jimmy Dykes, Chicago White Sox manager, has high hopes that Rookie-Infielder Bill Nagel, a fence-buster from Milwaukee can fill the shoes of Hal Trosky. Weak behind the plate, strong on Cubans again. Washington is minus its only .300 hitter, Stan Spence. Philadelphia's Athletics hoped ex-Milwaukee Outfielder Harold Peck would give their hot-&-cold batting order new heat...
...easy-smiling Guy Gibson flew his first bombing mission-to Kiel's ship canal. By late 1943, Wing Commander Gibson was the only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service Order and bar); "the most experienced bomber pilot in the world...