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One Saturday night recently in Boston, the Shubert Theatre's SRO sign was out. Inside, Leave It to Me, a musicomedy soon to open on Broadway, sailed ahead to roars of laughter. Victor Moore wowed the audience in the role of a dumbbell U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet...
¶ One difficulty of substratosphere flying is that in the thin upper air a propeller blade has to take bigger or more frequent bites of air to maintain the ship's speed and altitude. By increasing the pitch of propeller blades bigger bites are possible, but wind-tunnel experiments...
-*In 1931 Judge Wilson refused a pregnant prisoner permission to leave jail and have her baby in a hospital. The Los Angeles Record ran his picture captioned "Dumbbell in Ermine." For the Record, there was no judicial reprimand.
For the benefit of fascinated multitudes in four of the biggest U. S. cities-Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles - planetaria project artificial stars on artificial skies by means of big, complicated, dumbbell-shaped projectors, made by Zeiss and imported from Germany. Present price of a Zeiss instrument is around...
Unveiled last week in Springfield, Mass., was a homebuilt projector which cost less than $12,000. It was built by able, earnest Frank Korkosz, technician of Springfield's Museum of Natural History. Not dumbbell-shaped but spherical, the Korkosz instrument projects on a 40-ft. (diameter) hemispherical ceiling 7...