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...some reason the interior seems to start releasing energy faster than the surface can radiate it. Something of the sort happened to a star in NGC 4273 long before the first men appeared on Earth. Light from the blow-up started toward Earth at 186,000 miles per second, sped on for 7,000,000 years. Thirty thousand years ago it reached the fringe of the Milky Way. Four years ago it was inside Proxima Centauri, Earth's nearest star. Going fast enough to circle Earth seven times in a second, the light took only...
When the liner docked, the couple tripped smiling down the gangplank, amid yells of "Here comes the bride!" They refused all comment on the nuptials. Then Cinemactor Chaplin chartered the yacht Sea Belle II from Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements, for an East Indies cruise, sped off for a few days in Java...
...young King, whose father & mother always traveled by special train, had a single royal car hitched to the regular London-Glasgow express one night last week and sped north to the metropolis which is fullest of British Communists. Canny fellows, many of these Scotsmen are like Japanese Communists in viewing the Reigning House as their possible ally against the Upper Classes in a last-ditch social upheaval, or at any rate as safe custodians for immense wealth which never ceases to pile up and ultimately may be shared for the greatest good of the greatest number in the United Kingdom...
...British and French soldiers. Definitely the apple-cheeked wenches of the Rhineland are open-armed to soldiers. One day last week they could be seen giggling from thousands of windows in such great cities as Cologne, Aachen, Frankfort and Düsseldorf as wild, electric rumors sped that Prohibition of German soldiers was almost over...
...Parliament, deigning to give ear to the television buzz, appointed a committee to find out what Baird Tele vision Ltd. had to offer. Baird was still puttering with mechanical scanners. Fearing the snorts of the committee, Baird sent a frantic SOS to Philo Farnsworth. That tireless young man sped to England and signed a patent lease agreement, with the result that spectators in London's lofty Crystal Palace viewed a fashion show, a horse show, a boxing match, a Mickey Mouse cartoon, all televised from ten miles away. Television passed a gruesome mile stone in Crystal Palace when...