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...basis of one system, now being tested. Each signal box would have an infra-red generator; when its danger signal was up, a box would pour a constant beam of rays down the track. An approaching train would pick up the bad news on a photoelectric cell in the driver...
...might expect, the throne-room of the New England Watch and Ward Society is a cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some...
...theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
...solitary prisoner now in France's Ile d'Yeu Fortress, ten miles offshore in the Bay of Biscay, the 90-year-old ex-hero of Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair...
Salmon in the Cell. Evelyn did not act like a woman on trial for her life. She yawned, drew sketches. In her cell between sessions she burbled delightedly: "I get salmon salads . . . everything I like." She asked for magazines: "You know, love stories. ... Lots of them." She got fan mail, a dozen carnations, a card reading: "Happy Returns...