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...jump is the distance from the center of the ring to the final resting place. A jumping frog's handler (known as a "jockey") is forbidden to touch him after the first leap. Just before the first, the jockey is allowed to give him just one brisk flick, or tickle...
...will carry some of the U.S. shows that make Canadians flick the dial, tune in on U.S. stations. Among them: Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Philco's Hall of Fame, and a serial, That Brewster...
Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M. Fridé celebrated the tenth anniversary of the second time he had invented such a machine. Moreover, although the principle of an accurate calculator is already 123 years old, Carl Fridén's second model was further complicated by the fact that he could not infringe...
...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...
Dead Bird. In Portland, Ore., Harold M. Flick removed 27 brass cartridges from a rooster, sat down to a chicken dinner...