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Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...
...machine used to trap this elusive iota is known as a cloud chamber. Nothing new, this apparatus has been in use since 1910; it consists of a chamber containing a mixture of liquid and gas and several lead plates, through which the cosmic radiations pass--the gas is cooled, and produces a fog track along the path of ions formed by the charged corpuscles. This track of condensed vapor can be easily seen with the naked eye and also photographed, showing up as a bright streak on the film. Thus electrons, protons and the new particles, although far too infinitesimal...
...Foto's, first appearance. Readers got 66 pages in rotogravure of photographs intended to raise the reader's hair, hackles or eyebrows. Most appalling shot: the corpse of a New York sneak-thief who garroted himself when he stumbled and was caught by the neck in a trap door...
...Loch Ness, Scotland, first fabled in the world press in 1933. Opener of its 1937 season was an announcement by the Right Rev. Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair, Bart, (no kin to Dr. Reid Blair) that, at the age of 83, he was organizing an expedition to trace and trap the creature, bring it back alive...
...French Secret Service and is confirmed in her suspicions of Benoit. Unwittingly she falls in love with her prey only to find she has betrayed him to the German office. After heart-rending scenes in which both women vio to save their lover from tragedy, Benoit escapes the death trap. Erna is slain by her Prussian affiliate when captured, but Benoit and the post-mistress join hands unscathed...