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...less than seven costume designers, Albert Johnson has set the show in superb fashion. The first crack out of the Johnson paint box is a charming mechanical clock revolving in centre stage. Two automata strike at bells while other mummers, masked and mounted on wooden disks like toy soldiers, circle past. With this pantomime of musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40 gets off to a good start at about...
...idle toy, the Westinghouse device serves industry as a delicate circuit breaker for aluminum welding, as a mercury vapor lamp for producing stroboscopic light by which to inspect revolving parts. A very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk...
...reason, often fail to distinguish between cause and effect. ("The fire engine stopped because the wheel is not going around.") Declares Dr. Adams: "The average child of 18 months cries 'No,' often and emphatically without having the slightest intellectual conception of its meaning. It screams 'No' decisively when a toy or a sweet is taken from it, and . . . when it is told to do something it considers disagreeable or unnecessary...
...gentleman that I have ever known." On long trips this by no means handsome aristocrat travels in a car attached to crack trains like the Twentieth Century. He is accompanied by a stablemate, usually a horse named Anarchy whom he likes, by his Negro handler, Johnny Gaines, and his toy poodle. In Chicago, Cavalcade was annoyed by too many callers. Trainer Smith put him in another stall, substituted a horse named Sleuth which visitors, when told it was Cavalcade, freely photographed...
...boat Professor Borden and his wife Marie are on a "paddle tour." Last week they were paddling a few miles from Istanbul in the general direction of Greece. A storm came up and they sought shelter on the Turkish shore. "Our only weapon," said Professor Borden afterward, "was a toy pistol to frighten away savage dogs...