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...Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...
Anti-aircraft fire: Tests against cloth targets* towed behind airplanes at 4,500 feet, targets smaller than the area-bombing plane, showed that the anti-aircraft guns scored one or more direct hits in 75% of the trials. The Navy has a gun that fires 13-pound projectiles 24,000 feet in the air, and another that fires 50-pound projectiles 28,500 feet, both of which fire 14 shots a minute?so that a battery of eight projectiles can deliver 112 shots a minute; also, machine guns that will fire 400 half-inch projectiles a minute to a height...
Again the medium set to work. He produced a great slate, 18 inches high and over two feet long. The children examined it; it was quite unwritten on. Carefully the medium wrapped it in a cloth. Teddy and Cornelius were made to hold it. Again the medium implored the spirits. The slate was unwrapped. It bore two portraits? one of the President, the other of Uncle Quentin, killed in France. Under the President's picture was an inscription saying that if he should ever come back, it would be through the medium of Houdini. Below was signed in unmistakable hand...
Teddy III shouted: "It's a film and you developed it under the cloth...
...actors to read the one-act plays that have come from the 47 Workshop, many of them perfect gems. For we realize what a tremendous force for good 2000 James Barries could exert in this country. Naturally, your Workshop could not trun Barries out of the whole cloth, but certainly it has already shown that it has helped at least a few such to find themselves. But at this time it is pathetic, the note of hope that we find in Professor Baker's writings...