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...past year the most ingenious defender of the U. S. on the air has been an inventive wizard named Peter Quill. Against the machinations of foreign agents he has thrown the resources of a laboratory that would startle even Jules Verne. He has discovered a substance called therminite which burns at 6,000 degrees, melts all metals, renders water explosive by breaking it down into hydrogen and oxygen. He has invented a delayed-action "explosive" which explodes so gradually that it can be used on sinking submarines to expel water and chlorine. He has devised a magnetic screen so powerful...
...brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Lindemann. One of Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought to have something to do with the R. A. F.'s inflammable calling cards...
Consulting wizard of the Radio Theatre is Cecil Blount De Mille. Nominally producer of the show, De Mille nowadays does little more than serve as commentator, leaves actual work of whipping programs together to Director Sanford Howard Barnett. Only when particularly knotty problems occur does De Mille contribute a bit of sage advice. Once, when animal imitators were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted...
...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...
Border Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...