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...just installed an ingenious electronic warning system in the house of a gangster. He and his criminal client are admiring it when suddenly the alarm sounds; a time bomb has just been shoved through a cellar window. At the very moment the doctor in the hospital snips the umbilical cord of the baby girl, the young father', sweating with tension, snips the bomb's wires and saves the gangster's life. This is a high point in a movie called Wiretapper, designed by ex-Wiretapper Jim Vaus to bring sinners to repentance by dramatizing his own life...
...downtown streetcar to go to the parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished and brutally garroted with a piece of cord and a strip of her petticoat, was found in the basement of the factory. Blood matted her hair and her face was swollen and grimy...
Hearing Glasses. For clients who are vainer about their hearing than their eyesight, Otarion, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., has designed a hearing aid housed in standard, horn-rimmed glasses. The amplifier fits behind the ear and since no cord or attachment is needed, the glasses can be put on and off like an ordinary pair. Price...
...began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have not yet cut the umbilical cord binding them to traditions that were old when Stanley presumed he had met Livingstone...
Instead he hurried home, stripped off his oxford shirt, rep tie, and cord suit, and dressed in his oldest dungarees, T-shirt, and battered loafers. Later that afternoon, posing as a boy just out of high school, he landed a $65-a-week job with a construction company. Nine weeks later, having made his $600, this young fellow quit his job and put his tie back...