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...from a pile of 350. While couples syncopated to the tunes of Tasker Crossman, at the polished circulation desk, converted into a bar, free beer flowed aplenty. Dressed as a ragged girl, an ingenious graduate won the prize for the best costume--a loving cup fashioned out of a headlight, a hub cap, and two steel pipes...
...Claire, Wis., when the Chicago & North Western's mile-a-minute "400" flyer halted briefly, police found Floyd Newman clinging to the locomotive's headlight. Remarked Floyd Newman: "It's the fastest piece of iron I ever rode...
This small miracle was made possible, the engineers were soon told, because the "windshield" through which they looked was made of a recently developed material called Polaroid, and the headlight lenses were backed by plates of the same stuff. Polaroid polarizes light. Reduced to simplest terms, polarization is a process of "combing out" a beam of light so that it vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with...
...Maple Leaf express (Chicago-Montreal) had shot through an open switch at a-mile-a-minute, knifed its way through two cars of a holiday excursion train, killed 15, injured 32. The excursion train had been stalled on a siding with engine trouble. A jittery brakeman, seeing the approaching headlight of the Maple Leaf, had lost his head, switched the flyer off the main line onto the siding...
...away something shrieked. Then the dull glow of a headlight stabbed out of the fog. Before the terrified actors could move, straight through them and their bus plowed the special train of Realmleader Adolf Hitler, traveling at more than 100 kilometers per hour...