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...Clear. In Rye, England, the town fathers failed to appoint a successor to the late Chummy Barton, last official Watcher for Napoleon's cross-Channel invasion of England...
...Brass. The top staffs settled down in villas and houses surrounding the hotel. There were 34 villas altogether, divided into seven "defensive zones." Around them bristled anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, pillboxes, gun emplacements, fire-watcher towers...
Above them the two Navy airships had collided and one had collapsed. Farther out, where no shore watcher could see, her control car and bag had tumbled crazily into the water. Only one enlisted man of her crew was rescued. The other airship, only superficially damaged, got safely back to the Lakehurst base...
...Rabbits. In Leonia, N.J., John A. Earl, candidate for a state senatorship, guarded against hocus-pocus at the drawing for positions on the primary ballot by taking along a magician as a watcher...
...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...