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...train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years had Chicago seen such a turnout, even under Big Bill Thompson...
...race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks for pylons, some found themselves on the 5-mile and 10-mile courses. One zoomed far aloft, another popped up from behind a grandstand. The only one to fly the prescribed route, Miss Florence Klingensmith, was timed at 59 m.p.h., made two extra laps before officials could signal her down...
...past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan was heading for Ellendale to fly around with Station Director Thomas Lawlor this week. They are to take aloft a self-recording electroscope whose invention Dr. Millikan announced from Pasadena last week. It is ten times as sensitive to cosmic rays as any other electroscope he knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from...
Northern Californians rubbed their eyes last week as Lake Tahoe turned orange. In Lassen National Park motorists cursed their overheated engines. Visitors to American River Canyon looked aloft, beheld a vast mottled cloud moving northwest. Natives of the Sierra Nevada foothills, remembering similar phenomena in 1926, 1919 and 1913, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work. They knew that these butterflies live off wild lilacs and other wild plants, do not harm domestic crops...
Sirs: In TIME, July 18, photograph of a man in overalls is shown with his hands chained aloft being flogged for theft and sale of ice box upon which he realized the sum of Three ($3) Dollars. Question:-Have any photographs ever been taken of men in frock coats being flogged for scuttling millions from banks, building & loan societies, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera? LEE K. STROBEL Los Angeles, Calif. TIME has never seen any photographs of frock-coated floggees, will most certainly print, as of maximum news value, the first such photograph available...