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...generally associates Charles (Buddy) Rogers with the typical screen version of college life. Consequently one is generally cloth to spend an afternoon watching the young gentleman perform. Fortunately, however, he has been given an opportunity to display his ability in a somewhat more pleasing vehicle and the result is surprisingly gratifying. The picture in question is "Illusion" now showing at the University. It is a well-directed and effective tragi-comedy based on the present day American social system. The theme is by no means a new one, but it is attractively presented and capably acted by a good cast...
...guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted .50 calibre Browning machine guns blow forth eight sulphur-colored blossoms, fling white-hot missiles at a similar aerial target to score 36 direct hits...
Natural gas is an adaptable agent. It may be used in anesthesia or in the cure of sleeping-sickness, in fueling or fighting fires, in blowing up cities or in dyeing cloth. Its first and perhaps most important use, however, is in supplying the pressure that forces crude oil from the bowels of the earth to the surface. When local gas pressure is exhausted, further working of an oil well is almost prohibitively expensive...
...plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself and instruments, which were illuminated, gave the plane the gun. Off were the two men. Lieutenant Kelsey with his arms resting on the gunwales, Lieutenant Doolittle completely shrouded. Fourteen miles in all he flew, seeing nothing but his instruments. Certainly, assuredly, he made an excellent three-point landing within...
Despite his success in discovering murderers with nothing more than a scrap of cloth or a bloody hatchet to work on, crimes of violence did not interest the great Gaston Bayle...