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Londoners have television in their homes, pubs and clubs. France has constructed an Eiffel Tower transmitter, expects to telecast to the public within a few months. Germans have television-equipped telephone service between Berlin and Leipzig, can ring up faces as well as voices. But in the U. S., where the radio industry is private and the broadcasters have to play the game with their own chips, caution has kept television in the laboratory experimental stage...
...theory that music alone hath not sufficient box-office charm, the producers stuffed the picture with best-selling comedy commodities. In view of the Paris background, the film has still another distinction : the Eiffel Tower does not appear until the second reel...
...which to enter Paris 1937 is the hopefully green Peace Tower at the gate formed by the two great marble wings of the new Trocadero Palace, this to be a permanent structure housing Paris art exhibits of the highest class. From it visitors descend broad steps with the Eiffel Tower rising ahead of them across the Seine, on their left the massive German pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt...
...Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower. The Pope presented a silver-framed pastel of himself autographed "Toto corde benedicens,"- a pearl rosary and a relic of the Little Flower to Mrs. Smith, and a Good Shepherd medal to both...
...Sculptor Bartholdi expected. By the time the Philadelphia Exposition opened all that was ready was Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi. He called in his friend Engineer Eiffel - already planning the tallest tower the world had ever seen - who solved the problem by designing a skeleton for Liberty in the form of a central steel mast round which are wrapped two spiral staircases, braced like a camera by a quadruped of four iron pylons. On this framework...