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From then on, Edgar Bergen practiced bringing voices up from his stomach without seeming to move his lips. His success is demonstrated in dummy Charlie McCarthy who crows, firsts, chuckles, sneers and whines over an NBC network every Sunday. He gets 100 letters a week. Never was a four-foot piece of Michigan pine more popular...
McCarthy was recently voted the most typical college man by a Middle-Western school. To that the four-foot piece of wood comments, as he frequently does in looking over the world of men, "One dummy at a time...
...small ones. It was his theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended to 11,000 ft., came down six hours later...
Selected for being the nearest modern relative of the dinosaur, one of the 250 extant Indian rhinos was cornered by Miss Lane in the Bronx Zoo. She first made a six-inch job, then a two-foot, then a four-foot, and finally a life-size. She was dissuaded from going on up the scale...
...radically new process perfected by the research laboratories ol he Dewey and Almy Chemical Co. and known as the Kaysam Process. By it, virgin latex is cast to give a hollow ten-inch ball of rubber gel, which can then be expanded by air pressure into a four-foot balloon. After drying and curing it is ready...