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Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...
...clock. As minute and second hand cut the hour he speaks. The vibration which is the "sound" of his voice becomes an electrical vibration. It speeds along a wire to a building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time at all (for their speed is that of light], they reach...
Branding showers as "unclean, unsanitary, and unhealthful," Rost claims that he had tried the swimming pool, and even a dip in the cool crystal-clear waters of the Charles as a substitute for an old-fashioned bath, but was satisfied with neither. "Just bring on those Mount Holyoke girls," Rost boasted...
More urgent, but less numerous, are the undergraduates of voting age who are on Uncle Sam's books of the next few months. Immediate opportunities not preparation courses, are what they want to know about. And for this group Casner need not play the crystal gazer: he has the information on hand...
Even the Great Exposition and the Crystal Palace, his father's pet hobby, left Bertie unmoved. "And then, one day, wandering through the tedious immensity of the East India Company's exhibit, he discovered ... a lively group representing the murderous Thugs at their work. He was enchanted." It was almost as shocking as the only other incident that marred the Exposition-the assault on some ladies by a party of Welsh teetotalers...