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...Charles River, according to Captain Chapman of the Metropolitan District Police. These signals will consist of the three-colored automatic lights similar to those now used in Brookline except that they will be controlled by the magnetic disturbance caused by cars passing over metal plates sunk in the pavement. Neither road will have the right of way, but a car passing over the plates will set the lights in its favor if a car on the other artery is not already at the intersection. In periods of dense and slight traffic the signals will change at fixed intervals...
...Association House, hurled stones, broke windows even as high as the fifth floor. Other irate Fascists mobbed a Catholic publishing house, hurled from its windows copies of the best-selling book Papa (The Pope). Wrenching from the wall a portrait of II Papa they dashed it from window to pavement crying: "Here is a traitor to his country...
...work when fate overtook him in the manner which tradition prescribes for gigolos. The husband of a woman he had been comforting all winter came home one evening and threw him over the parapet of a penthouse. The scene in which he lies crushed to death on the pavement is the end of his life in Paramount pictures. From now on he will work for Warner and there are indications in Ladies' Man that the deal had already been completed and that the producers had lost interest in Powell-indications in the dialog, construction and directing of a carelessness...
...begun to form along Boston's Exeter Street, to perch on window ledges. After lunch the windows filled up and eyes turned down the street to catch the first glimpse of what would presently appear - a runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last...
...interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed-off revolver behind his head and pulled the trigger. As the shot barked through the crowded tunnel and people screamed. Lingle pitched forward to the pavement, newspaper still clutched under his arm, cigar in teeth, instantly dead...