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...average pedestrian poised impatient on the curb it may seem a simple matter to determine whether an intersection should have a traffic light. Actually, however, that is a decision of almost Ein- steinian difficulty according to Assistant Engineer John T. Gibala of the New York City police, who last week explained in Spring 3100 (New York police monthly) the formula he has devised to solve the problem. If 3,000 intersections need traffic lights, but there is money for only 150 his is a sure-fire way of learning which crossings need lights most...
Last week the head of Primal Energy cracked, fell to the ground, slightly injuring a passing woman pedestrian in the foot. This was all Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen O'Keeffe needed. Promptly he ordered all six statues along the Strand front of the building taken down, withheld judgment on the rest...
...ranks low, since it not only telescopes Parnell's career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers and a turret-top collar can make Clark Gable look, sound or act like the uncrowned King of Ireland...
This treatise upon the discoverer of "Realmism," perhaps the most revolting iam yet produced, is followed by reviews which set a standard of literary excellence Mr. De Voto's more pedestrian reviewers might do well to emulate. I shall not tell you the books mentioned, nor the reviewers named, but a reader aware of Harvard's famous or notorious will find much that sounds familiar. Professor S-r-k-n, Professor J-n-s, a brace of instructors in the -c-n-m-cs Department, Messrs. M-rq--nd and S-nt-y-n- and Colonel...
...Suitable patients may be referred to the hospital by physicians and others who are interested. . .". An ambulance will be sent when necessary." But not many doctors want to surrender their patients to the Rockefeller Institute Hospital. Sometimes an East Side drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian outside the Institute's park and he gets first aid in the hospital. But usually the medical staff have lots of time for the serene preoccupations of Science, are agitated upon rare occasions by the visit of a curious Rockefeller...