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Keeping an eye on the stars for navigation purposes is an old Navy custom. Last week the Navy announced that it has nearly completed a radio telescope to watch stars in another way. The reflector, an aluminum "dish" 50 feet in diameter and weighing 14 tons, is supported by a mounting made for a 5-in. gun. It will watch the sky from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
From a hospital bed in Perth Amboy, bruised and with two broken ribs, Engineer Fitzsimmons talked with the ICC investigators. "I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency. "That is the custom. One light as you approach. The second light is at the point at which the slow order is effective." Said Fitzsimmons: "Those lights weren't there...
...most U.S. motorists, hot-rodders are a breed of nerveless nuisances who zip their noisy jalopies in & out of traffic with uncanny skill. But to two young Hollywood publicity men, Robert Lindsay, 27, and Robert ("Pete") Petersen, 24, hot-rodders seemed to be a custom-made target for a new magazine...
...Second Woman (Harry Popkin; United Artists) improves on the old Hollywood custom of modeling a movie after a hit. The picture apes not one model but at least three. Its title trades on The Third Man, while most of its twists come straight out of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Spellbound...
...proprietors have been urged to revive the Roman custom of holding drinking orgies to celebrate the day by featuring Valentine specials. Many theatres throughout the country advertise Valentine programs, during which the lights are turned off for five minutes...