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...Radio waves can be used to dry artificial silk as it is spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...
Obviously, this kind of unfairness cannot go on forever. Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'erperch these walls." But he doesn't perch the way his father...
Singapore. Cecil Brown's cabled, news-reel-clear account of the sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales came into the CBS newsroom in Manhattan hours after his friends there had decided he was dead...
...Punch & Reel. The enemy had struck its first blow. Only ten months ago Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel was jumped over 46 flag officers to take the senior job afloat in the U.S. Navy. It was a strange commentary on the memories of civilians and Navymen alike that after Port Arthur* this blow should have come as a surprise. Long before Hitler, the Japanese Navy had shown what the swift thrust, before declaration of war, could...
...English, was organized by the Harvard unit, together with members of the Radcliffe, Wellesley, Lassell, and Piue Manor chapters. It is one of similar meetings that will take place wherever Free Frenchmen are fighting Nazilsm. As well as the pictures of the invasion of France, the first reel depicting DeGaulle's army, navy, and air force in Great Britain and in the Free French empire, will be released tonight...