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Some 350,000 people, including 100,000 over Labor Day weekend, visited the State Park in Watkins Glen, N. Y. to gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink...
...blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom, but no bud opened. Crowds came to gape at the monster stalk, the sulky buds. Director Elmer D. Merrill apologized, "This plant is 50 years old and I guess it's got a right to be temperamental. . , . The rain. . . ." When a Park botanist saw one bud opening last week he was afraid to start premature hopes again...
...while their president described the particular bulb of the Dutch company. In Andover, N. J., Westinghouse was demonstrating the uses of the strange light in interior illumination. In Schenectady, General Electric installed 22 of its own sodium vapor lamps on a section of the Balltown Road, watched startled motorists gape at the lights as they sped down the saffron-colored highway...
Meanwhile in Akron, Ohio, a record crowd of 25,000 in a single day flocked to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock to gape at the Macon, which was to be test-flown this week. It appeared certain that the Navy would accept and operate her. But Goodyear-Zeppelin had small hope of contracts for future ships for a long time to come...
...brings to the part of Irela, a character in which cruelty, vanity and tenderness fight for the upper hand. As Irela's niece, Miss Jane Wyatt performs capably. But Evensong remains the sort of wooden spectacle in which crowds of supers are led out on the stage to gape at the star, having nothing else...