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...darkest clouds have rolled away," said he with a wave of his fork. "Final settlement of the war in Africa will be possible after the next session of the League of Nations...
Married. George White, 63, twice (1931-35) Governor of Ohio; and Agnes Hofman Baldwin, artist, socialite; at the Rocky Fork Hunt & Country Club, Columbus, Ohio...
...view was the "telephone of the future," not slated for general service until two years hence. It is a self-contained unit, eliminating the black box screwed on the wall. On top of a small metal housing, shaped like a truncated pyramid, is a fork carrying the transmitter. Inside the housing is the ringing mechanism, two musical gongs which may be rung emphatically with a metal clapper or softly with a wooden one at the subscriber's whim. Recessed into the housing is the dial, which operates almost noiselessly...
...Stevenson rat is impervious to all such lures and hindrances. Resembling a three-wheeled roller skate loaded with small motors, electromagnets and switches, the robot is set on a track containing twelve forks at each of which a wrong turn leads to a dead-end. The robot is first set to take the turn to the right at every fork. When this proves to be wrong and results in a bump against the dead-end, the "rat" goes into reverse, backs up past the fork, goes forward again, taking the correct left turn. This resets the controls in such...
...Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they...