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Later Corporal John was made the focus of countless lenses. "Click," went expensive focal plane press shutters. "Clickety-whurr," purred Bell and Howell cinema cameras. The noted corporal "squads righted," "squads lefted," and "righted by squads...
...epidemic of smallpox that last month broke out in Philadelphia, appeared, last week, to have spread to Washington and, in less degree, to Baltimore. Negro quarters of these cities were focal areas for the infection. Mortality was between 11% and 35%, indicating a virulent strain of organism...
...Weeks fears its provisions may hamper the Army's Signal Service. Guy E. Tripp, Chairman of the Board of the Westinghouse Company, favors the creation of a super-radio broadcasting system under an interstate radio commission with broad powers. Six or more high-powered stations strategically located at focal points would be interconnected by wire or radio "pick-ups." In addition local stations would serve the various communities with material of local interest. The Westinghouse interests now control the nearest .approach to such a system. Their central broadcasting station, KDKA, at East Pittsburgh, Pa., is itself the most powerful...
Manhattan Island was the focal point of baseball interest all over the world. Fanatics overflowed the city's hotels to see the " Yankees " (American League champions) play the " Giants" (National League champions) for what is generally conceded to be the championship of the planet in this sport. Four out of seven games were to decide the winner...
...Director of its Sproul Observatory. It will be stationed at Yerbaniz, Mexico. Other members: Profs. E. W. Merriott and W. E. Wright, of Swathmore; Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Dinsmore Alter, University of Kansas. They will take a 65-foot focal length telescope camera, the largest ever used for this work...