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Walking across the Johns Hopkins campus one day after a rain, Dr. Wood passed a group of students. As he went by, he spat into a puddle. Instantly, to their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with...
Jersey City. The Jersey City Jewish Community Center recently ousted from its building a Jewish congregation headed by an anti-Hague rabbi, Benjamin Plotkin. Some local Jews called him a Communist. Said the American Hebrew last week: "For Jersey Jews deliberately to fan the flame which may ultimately consume them seems the most reckless kind of communal suicide." Similarly, Jesuit America has warned Jersey City Catholics against allying themselves with Boss Frank Hague, a Roman Catholic, on the grounds that Hague tactics may be used elsewhere against Catholics (a warning, however, not heeded by numerous Jersey City priests and Catholic...
...during dinner. Resourceful Bellboys, undismayed by the situation, reached up and grasped a string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...
...train at the station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track in another direction, met another train. As they climbed aboard, flames broke out on both sides of the track. Fire chased the train so closely that the engineer and fireman fainted, and when the train finally stopped at a lake the coaches burst into flame. But passengers tumbled into mud, were among the survivors of a day that destroyed five towns...
Last week the Doctor's rubbish burst into flame when he cried to a meeting of Philadelphia's Leftist People's Forum: "If you are really interested in painting go out and raise hell at the museum. ... If the time ever comes when we can lead ? mob maybe we can take it away from them...