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...rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated white powder. Pronounced the Department of Justice man: "The best bomb I have seen in many years of police work. Powerful enough to blast through an ordinary stone wall...
Ceremoniously last week Dr. Fernberger presented the relic to the University of Pennsylvania. It consisted of a few frail, faded leaves clinging to a spindly stem, starkly silhouetted against a rectangle of white cardboard...
...lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace!" while newspapers bellowed "Be prepared...
...life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends...
Wasn't it Mrs. Leslie Carter (now trying a Hollywood comeback) rather than Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske (deceased) who "transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell"? . . . Does TIME deliberately make such errors to discover how many readers will detect them...