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...tentative sketches of University Hall prepared in 1815 by Charles Bulfinch, the famous New England architect, and firmly rejected by the college. Bulfinch originally desired that the central building be topped with a massive gold dome; when this was turned down he was willing to compromise on a large cupola. The building, as finally constructed, had a plain roof, and is still in use today for the university offices...
...made several attempts to retire jallopies from circulation. Henry Ford offered $20 for each & every jallopy delivered at Dearborn. So great was the rush that he had to set up a demolition line functioning in reverse of an assembly line. Before a car was finally dumped into a furnace cupola it was stripped of glass, tires, battery, upholstery, top fabric, copper, brass. Serviceable equipment was sold to Ford employes, the rest used to the last scrap in the meticulous Ford economy. More than 300,000 jallopies were junked before the demolition line finally shut down...
...courtroom doors were to be locked during the verdict formalities, the A. P. man in the courtroom carried a brief case containing a short-wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
...York Daily News man carried a small overnight bag containing a short-wave transmitter. As the jury entered the courtroom, the News man stealthily touched his radio button four times-the News's code signal for jury-entry. That was the signal that flashed from courtroom to cupola to press-rooms and microphones...
...cupola and the great central hall of Berlin's Reichstag Building were gutted by a mysterious fire last winter (TIME, March 6). Ostensibly to fix the blame the Nazi Government scheduled for this week a great trial before the German Supreme Court at Leipzig of five men charged with arson and high treason. Supposed to have thrown the brand was one Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman whom the Nazis call a Communist. The other four prisoners were Ernst Torgler, a German Communist leader, and three Bulgarian Communists. But last week in London, Germany's trial was being...