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...Montgomery, Ala., stopped by Patrolman William Collins for speeding his banana truck and for reckless driving, Truckdriver R. L. Hathaway gave as his excuse that he had a tarantula in his pants. The policeman slit open the trousers of R. L. Hathaway, flicked out the tarantula, blackjacked...
Back in Melbourne for Armistice Day, Gloucester dedicated its great new Shrine of Remembrance to more than 60,000 Australians killed in the War, watched a beam of sunlight slant through a slit in the wall at exactly 11 a. m. and search out the Biblical inscription, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Day before he presented the prizes to the winners of the Centenary's biggest event, the London-to-Melbourne air races (TIME...
...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 officials waiting for the first demonstration. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal. In one mailed fist Alpha clutched a revolver...
...Villa Tor-Ionia in Rome, popped into his Alfa-Romeo and scorched southward deep into the malarial marshes of the Pontine. A motorcade of 200 cars pursued him bearing officials and newshawks most of whom wrote that night "Today I rode with Mussolini." Suddenly Il Duce's car slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting seven children, had neatly stacked good golden wheat...
Promptly at noon a postal official slit open the first bid and read it aloud. Others followed, to the scratch of an accountant's pen writing down their contents. Most of the old-line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names...