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Weatherman Colton's crash made citizens conscious of a new profession. Before airplanes, kites and balloons took weather recording instruments aloft in out-of-the-way places. But kites require wind, balloons not too much wind; both are unusable in bad weather; both have been scrapped except for one...
To explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard's Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England's late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement invented...
On a Hollywood set, a 150-lb. studio lamp fell, struck unconscious, badly bruised Mary Pickford. Husband Douglas Fairbanks quickly revived her.
Out of the Senate rules Charles Gates Dawes fabricated a slapstick issue to keep himself politically alive and ended up by being a real backstage power in shaping legislation. The nearest Vice President Curtis ever came to influencing public affairs was when his vote broke a tie on tariff flexibility...
Scarlet Dawn (Warner). Soviet Russia interests Hollywood profoundly. Most of the major producers feel sure that there is a good scenario somewhere in the Five-Year Plan and they are trying hard to find it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner...