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Before a shimmering white mansion actors in brown and green hold up white cotton stalks. King Mumbra is now a house servant. The White Mistress tells the story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give...
...welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing...
...time keeper. At the start, with a stopwatch in each hand, she will let her husband know how many seconds he has before Endeavour can cross the line. Says she: "If our teamwork is perfect we should hit the starting line at full speed just as the gun flashes. . . . Yes, you may be sure I won't wear trousers. ... I watch for the flash to start my watches as it takes several seconds for the sound to reach us. I'm so busy watching for the flash that I never see anything of the actual start...
...schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary it cost him both his job and Undine. But the experience had been...
...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was?250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...