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Because of a pine tree fire just at game time, which threatened to destroy the stands filled with a B.U. Junior Class Day crowd, and because of the sloppiness of the play, it was 7:30 o'clock before the last batter was retired...
...Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them devout Roman Catholics, hate. More recently they have watched 27 neutral nations ignominiously fail to let Spain destroy itself unassisted...
...sell it to Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...
...Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help of his daughter Joan (Jean Rogers), a Ranger guard named Jim Travers (Warren Hull) and a number of electrical tours de force, old Mallory manages to surmount beatings, blindness...
Last week, however, Warden Eckert gave the nation's birdfolk fresh alarm by proposing to step up his campaign, declaring: "My hunters will get new orders to shoot every golden eagle they see, destroy all the nests and young they can find. If necessary, new hunters will be sent out." Four days later Warden Eckert's term expired and Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark replaced him with a deserving Democrat who, having had no experience with wild life, was expected to let eagles prey in peace...