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...carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence in the "war" was a flash from the Navy Department in Washington ordering the battleships Arizona and West Virginia to consider themselves suddenly torpedoed...
...down its 130 words-per-minute automatic transmitters to a crawling 25 words-per-minute pace. Soon Washington asked for a speed-up to 75, impatient Shanghai clamored for 100. But Buenos Aires said they could handle not more than 30 words-per-minute and the League refused to flash faster than that. Long before the ten hours were up, the Imperial Japanese Government and they alone had received the whole 15,000 words of bad news by cable from Geneva, paying almost $1 per word...
Although Gledhill beat him 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals next day, McGrath's victory over Vines proved definitely that he is not a freakish flash-in-the-pan. but the rarest thing in tennis-an utterly unorthodox player who is also a superlatively good one. Unable to give eye-witness reports of McGrath or to publish adequate photographs of him, U. S. tennis writers had to rely on descriptions by U. S. players who had seen him in action. Said Wilmer Allison: "McGrath will go right to the top with that funny backhand...
...commercial use since 1929, named for Clare Finlay, a London color photography pioneer. O. J. Jordan of Washington, D. C. who made the TIME photograph, explains that the Finlay process renders color photography almost as simple as ordinary black & white photography. The Roosevelt picture was taken with Photo flash bulbs for lighting, with an exposure of about 1/50 sec. The colors were recorded on one special sensitized plate, placed behind a taking screen made up of hundreds of thousands of infinitesimal tri-color (red, green, blue-violet) filters which absorb part of the light and transmit the remainder...
...noonday last week in a thousand newspaper offices, when the automatic news tickers jangled the signal, FLASH! and copy boys raced to news desks with yellow slips reading CALVIN COOLIDGE DEAD, a thousand news editors knew instantly what to do. But the editor of the New York Morning Telegraph was puzzled...