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...stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing the outside doors to shut. Without delay, the car drifted upward...
...Story: In the Astor Hotel, Shanghai, a year ago, one Childs H. Baker Jr. called for a drink. A small native with shoe-button eyes trotted briskly up to him, pushing a white three-wheeled barrow; in the barrow were the materials for making drinks. Surprised by this display of ingenuity, Childs H. Baker selected a concoction of gin, lime-juices, ice & fizzy water. As he quaffed, he became thoughtful...
...longing" of species to change or improve. These he considered, as did most other repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years spent among the strange leaves and unbelievable beetles of South America, among the cannibalistic Fuegian savages (with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that "longing" was not the cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world...
Last week Curator Blake-More Godwin of the Toledo Museum of Art, pressed a button. Curtains fell in the 19 great display windows in the famed Toledo department store of Lasalle & Koch (pronounced "cook") revealing 19 vast paintings of Toledo industry...
ROARING BONES-Prince William of Sweden-Button ($2.50). Prince William of Sweden has amused himself with journeys into the damp green mysteries of Africa, with elephant hunting, exploring and literature. His former opus, Among Pygmies and Gorillas, was an account of a zoological probe into the centre of the dark continent. This is a volume of short stories; love stories, African anecdotes, color stories about a chief who understood black magic, a leopard hunt, a march of wild phantoms through the jungle. The obvious comment upon princes, even Swedish princes, who write books is that laudatory insult reserved, also...