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Past Bausch & Lomb moving picture projection lenses whir about 120,000,000 ft. of film each day. The lenses probably bring Bausch & Lomb more money than any of their other devices. But closest to President Edward Bausch's heart remains the microscope. To him "the microscope has proven perhaps the greatest single aid of science in the combating and prevention of disease." Proud he is that his lenses have led to three major biological advances of 1932. Boasted he last week: "We built for Professor Edmund Newton Harvey of Princeton a centrifugal microscope which allows living cells...
Happily listening to whir of wheels and click of chips, Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts of Reno, survivor of the Old West, declared: "It's all nonsense trying to regulate people's morals by law. For eight years I've been trying to make Reno a place where everybody can do what they please?just so they don't interfere with other people's rights. Now we can do lawfully what Nevada has always done under cover...
...which she must sing her final immolation music and then ride bravely into the flaming pyre. A good Grane is as hard to find as a good German tenor. He must look spirited yet be willing to stand quietly while singers sing loudly and at close range, strings whir, brasses blare, drums pound and steam hisses up through the stage traps. In St. Paul, when the German Grand Opera visited there last year, the Grane was Daisy, a local two-ton, snow-white mare who earns her living regularly by pulling a milkwagon. Daisy looked the part admirably...
Last week as the warriors of the Tariff assembled in the Senate Chamber, above their heads came a sudden whir of wings. Looking up they beheld a pigeon gliding overhead. For a moment the ominous bird alighted above the battle on the edge of the Press Gallery. An eager correspondent snatched at it. The bird soared from his grasp leaving in his hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah...
Fatter Cameramen. Once forced to hurry from place to place, carrying heavy paraphernalia, cameramen are now pushed about in soundproof wheeled booths invented to keep the whir of the camera from recording on the sound-device. Last week two specimen cameramen, one Ed Du Par and one Ray Foster, both of Warner, gained respectively seven pounds, 15 pounds...