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From the matter-of-fact voice of the militia officer who said he was at the crater caused by the cylinder and had everything under control, to the plaintive gasp of the last radio operator calling into a void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked...
Yale's Last Gasp...
...Yale is afforded a last gasp to redeem herself architecturally," says the News, referring to the off-criticized mongrel variety of Yale's architecture. "Grimly we recognize the implausibility of a functional building in the midst of Gothic-Georgian-Renaissance-Egyptian settings, but if we must have our new college unit in one of these outmoded and clumsy styles, let us at least have it all of one piece...
Dealing with the story of an American woman who predominates a roll in the hay with Lord Howe so that Washington's troops may receive support and retreat, Lewis Meltzer's play meanders through two dull acts, rears its head for a final gasp in the third, and then dies a miserable death...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...