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Members of the Danville, Ill., Rotary clubassembled last week to behold a marvel. Awe was in every heart as a man stood among them, all unafraid, and bade an assistant fire revolver bullets at him point blank. "Blam! Blam-blam!" The Rotarians could scarcely believe their eyes as the bullets quite obviously smote their target and still he stood unhurt. The Rotarians drew closer . . . "Blam-blam!" . . . and soon three of them were writhing with pain. Baker Walter C. Spitz, Banker John Telling and Reporter H. V. Streeter suffered cuts, scratches and contusions as chunks of lead, ricocheting from the entertainer...
...Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic form. People marvel sometimes that his well-known song, "At Dawning," which alone paid for his beautiful summer home, was put down on black and white in less than 15 minutes...
White Elephant. From the tar north city of Chiengmai glad news sped that there had been born that rare marvel, a true white elephant, all pinkly pristine and signifying that the gods view with favor the ascension of pert brown-eyed King Pracha Tipok (TIME, March...
Folk whom an age of exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
...above, however many, do well to pay taxes and interest on the investment. Early Manhattan skyscrapers-the first Equitable Building (seven stories, 1869, with its "vertical railroad"), the gold-domed Park Row Building, the 21-story Flatiron Building, the 41-story Singer Building (1907) and finally that 60-story marvel that dwarfed everything save the imagination of the man who thought of selling things for five and ten cents-all these paid for themselves in advertising value. For later imitations in prairie cities like Chicago and Detroit there was no equivalent economic excuse. In proving themselves to be cities these...