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...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...
Studebaker's Commander costs $965, its State President $1,110. Trim and unfussed-over, both types have remote control gear shifting, optional overdrive, interiors conditioned by a "Climatizer...
...movements of animals placed inside a striped, revolving cylinder, has tested visual acuity in such difficult subjects as snakes, frogs, toads, turtles, alligators, gophers, Gila monsters. Some months ago Rochester's psychology department chairman, Dr. Leonard Carmichael, left to become president of Tufts College. He was replaced by trim, twinkly, soft-spoken Elmer Augustine Kurtz Culler, formerly of the University of Illinois, who has made profound studies of the "conditioned response" and whose specialty is the mechanism of hearing in mammals. By last week Dr. Culler had finished installing his battery of gadgets and he was able to show...
...course, this afternoon he will slouch over to Soldiers Field to watch the soldiers perform. As the cadets ripple past, he will be acutely conscious of the contrast of his rounded shoulders and his heterogeneous clothing with their trim appearance; but, being a Harvard man, he will probably choose to cover the embarrassment of his faults by proudly accentuating them. Nevertheless, once in the sheltering anonymity of the stadium crowd, he is sure that the squad of soldiers in black-and-gold uniforms on the field will be interesting to watch. They always are. But he will also have...
...humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that for excitement (and, at times, for skill) matches Typhoon. The Archimedes, a trim, 9,000-ton oil-burning freighter, westbound from New York, hits the trick hurricane two days out of Colon. This is on Thursday. By Sunday, when the hurricane abates, the Archimedes is a shambles and the crew has gone through an experience calculated to turn even Conrad's seamen...