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...horizontal scale. Thus the Rocky Mountains of Colorado would be 20 to 30 feet above the level of the lake and 10 to 20 feet above ground. The Palisades of the Hudson would be a foot high. The Grand Canyon would be 250 feet long and ten feet deep. Niagara Falls would be four inches high...
...Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio had been presented with a Doctor of Laws degree by George Washington University. After the ceremony conducted by Georgetown-President Cloyd H. Marvin, Señor Ortiz Rubio delivered in voluble if slightly uncertain English a few lofty sentiments; left on the morrow to inspect Niagara Falls...
...Siple of Erie, Pa., Sea Scout (branch of Boy Scouts of America), youngest member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition; in Little America. Age: 21. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter ("Duffle Bag") Beard, felicitated him over the radio, announced his promotion to grade of mate of the Sea Scout Ship Niagara. Concluded Commissioner Beard: "Oh, say! Don't forget to bring back a coop of penguins and a school of killer whales. They will need them to guard you on the flagship Niagara...
...Gallagher's letter (TIME, Nov. 18, p. 8) suggests the story of the American who had been constantly corrected in his pronunciation of Eng- lish proper names, until his patience was well-nigh exhausted: his English friend happening to refer to Niagara Falls, the American was prompt to correct him. "No, no," he said, "at home we pronounce it Niffles...
There was many another clue. A battered Studebaker car with a Massachusetts license had been seen near Pach's studio. Teasing telegrams arrived at the office of the Yale Daily News. A message from Winter Park, Fla., said that the Fence was being nibbled by alligators. From Niagara Falls came word that the relic had been seen tumbling over the cataract. In Chicago someone was holding "the third rail of the Fence." Other telegrams came from Seattle, Poughkeepsie, Cambridge, Mass. All were signed "Algernon Gustavson...