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...wife, two guests and I were startled to hear the speaker repeat himself, not once, but twice, three, four, five times-"and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-" "and let us have-." In a moment there was a telling "click" as the disse tation continued. According to the announcer, the speaker was Wodehouse in person. Was his face red when, in order to get Wodehouse "out of the groove," he had to move the needle along the recording? I doubt...
Last week Northwest Airlines got practical about the problem, announced that it was installing plane oxygen systems which will : 1) cure airsickness, 2) prevent heart palpi tation and hard breathing at high altitudes, 3) make flying comfortable at cruising levels up to 30,000 feet, 4) prevent the painful sensation of having one's ears stopped up in descents from flights...
...Republicans eager to lick the New Deal, any bandwagon was a terrible temp tation. The angry, selfish old men of the political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York...
Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer...
...Recently there has been a large impor tation of agitators from Russia," observed Mr. Ross...