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...honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal appendix out. Mihai, 15, had been stricken while visiting his mother Princess (once Queen) Helen. His father King Carol...
...night sky, but it started from below the eleventh magnitude. Famed Nova Herculis of 1934 became one of the twelve brightest stars, but it started from the 14th magnitude. If Gamma becomes a nova, starting from the first or second magnitude, it will be brilliantly visible in broad daylight. And imaginative persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium...
...regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed out to report the total before the real one was released. When out-of-town numbers bankers were more innocent, New York racketeers used to take advantage of time differences caused by daylight saving to play a number after it had actually been published...
Then the Indianapolis cast off, the guns of Fort Moultrie fired a Presidential salute and Franklin Roosevelt disappeared hull down over the public horizon. Through daylight and darkness he ploughed ahead at 25 knots for three whole days during which the nearest newshawks were the three representatives of the press associations who followed with the Secret Service men half a mile behind on the cruiser Chester. On the fourth morning when the cruisers dropped anchor to refuel at Port of Spain, Trinidad, the newshawks had a peek at him. Only news they got was that he and his mother...
NORMANDIE--Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupation, which is known as the COCKTAIL hour (apologies to HWL.) Every afternoon from 4.30-7.30. Popular Prices Always Prevail...