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Tsar. To bigwigs in the pin-game industry, official antagonism is nothing new. For the past year, pin-game operators all over the U. S. have been intermittently assailed by the authorities. Since many of them got into the industry from the peep-show or slot-machine fields, they are at no loss to discover means of dealing with such situations. Last week, frightened by District Attorney Foley's attack, pin-game entrepreneurs had the foresight, even before Mayor LaGuardia's ban went into effect, of trying a completely new expedient: election of a "Tsar," like baseball...
...early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron. In terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done to make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison produced a peep-show device into which one spectator could look at pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera...
...woman to keep his fire; to make his tea? Must the old fellow don his cloak and sit at High Table? What will become of his Nut-cracker Man? What birds live in the Tower? Can the Charles, even as now, be seen? Do the Moon and the Stars peep in now and then? May the Vagabond have Alice and Bill the Lizard and the Walrus and the Hatter and anyone else he wishes? Will he, good Master, be free and allowed to journey his own way? And there'll be no rent, dear Sir? Alas! Alas...
Frenchmen are still submitting to the "peeping" of German planes coasting along their secretly built frontier defenses (TIME, May 6), but six Italian pursuit planes rocketed up last week when a German ship tried to peep at Benito Mussolini's so-called "Air Gibraltar," the great military airport on Italy's northern frontier near Sesto Calende...
Tanned Man. First thing Franklin Roosevelt did last week when he got back to Washington from his yachting holiday off Florida was to peep under Louis Howe's oxygen tent and say hello to his ailing No. 1 Secretary. Second thing was to summon to the White House Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns and Chairman Robert Lee Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee to confer about getting the Social Security Bill passed by the House...