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University of Pennsylvania's Track Coach Lawson Robertson took swift advantage of this news. Summoning reporters and photographers, he demonstrated a Danish gadget guaranteed to be proof against both nervous sprinters and unskillful starting officials. In front of each runner's marks lie two metal plates connected by wire to the starting gun. Unless every runner has his fingers on his plates the gun cannot be fired...
...Vivid Gadget. The portable recorders carried straight into battle by some radiomen (best was the Navy's film recorder) gave war reporting a vividness it has never had before. NBC's Wright Bryan had a recorder aboard a transport plane going in with paratroops. He described the scene and tension admirably, but none of his words matched the fateful clicks as the paratroopers hooked up their automatic release belts. A BBC recording caught a bargeload of British Tommies singing For Me and My Gal on their way to Normandy...
...with the very ground dangerous and explosive: "The Germans . . . use all the devilish, fiendish devices of war, things that we don't dare use. Poisoned mines, ones that bounce up and spread death for 25 yards; steel darts, that will go right through you; castorators, a nice little gadget that when you step on it blows your groin...
...last week a rickety, hard-used little toy wagon, with most of the red paint scuffed off the magic word "Express" on its side, was parked casually at the base of the fat, towering northwest column of the White House front portico. Beside it rested a vehicular gadget best known to childhood as an "Irish Mail," a contraption very like a railroad handcar...
...European-invented "repeating or everlasting match" - a pencil-size gadget that ignites on scratching, can be blown out and relit up to 140 times in a row - was suppressed. Diamond was glad to help keep it off the market because, as Justice quotes from Diamond files, it: 1) was "a distinct danger to the American match industry"; 2) "would be a fertile field for the rottenest kind of competition...