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...world of science and invention was, for the moment, unmoved. Those were the days when Henry Ford was still a struggling manufacturer gambling on the future of a mechanical curiosity. The Wright brothers were coaxing their first plane into brief and tentative flights over the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk. A Frenchman was prepared to turn out an automatic hat-tipper for use with the narrow-brimmed derbies of the period. And a Detroit doctor, after diligent study, had come to the horrified conclusion that before long the earth would be populated with lunatics...
...question before the court in Iowa's Black Hawk County Courthouse last week was tough to answer: What is a Christian? On the answer depended...
...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...
...Disney's effort to protect his forthcoming full-length Alice in Wonderland by staving off U.S. exhibition of Producer Lou Bunin's French-made version of Alice (TIME, July 16). Still muttering darkly of "deception," Disney announced plans for an appeal and put out pointed ads to hawk his Alice's Aug. i premiere: "There is only ONE Walt Disney! There is only ONE Walt Disney's Alicel...
Papagos, at 68, is Greece's No. 1 military hero (he beat the Italians in 1940), an ardent royalist and disciplinarian. But for the past six months the hawk-nosed commander's loyalty to King Paul has tangled with his belief in military discipline. Trouble started over a crony of the King's, one Aristides Metaxas,* a suave, impeccably dressed political aide. A military court had passed a death sentence on a Communist collaborator, a wealthy merchant who donated money to the Reds. The collaborator's relatives asked Metaxas to intervene. Soon thereafter the King commuted...