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Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...
Professor May, a dapper, blond, beak-nosed man in his middle thirties, signaled his assistant who drew a curtain behind the stage, revealing the massive control cabinets to which the robot was wired...
...robot clicked and whirred. Pivoting at knees and waist, it slowly stood...
When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down. Then Impresario May asked Alpha a question...
...that happiness and peace shall never be his. He does not want the things which he has achieved; he merely wants to achieve them and call them his. His blinding ambitions has dehumanized him so utterly that he no longer is a feeling, loving human, but a grasping, cruel robot, who sweeps everything before him. He is not unkind or inconsiderate to those whom he has succeeded in dominating, for they no longer mean anything to him. He drives onward to a goal which he does not know until finally he is destroyed by the shattered roots of his past...