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Last night the week long mystery of the Yale Fence came to a formal and very appropriate close. Harvard's famous jester has completed what promises to be a famous jest, and those upon whom the trick was turned have availed themselves of that grace which is too often overlooked in the heat of an unpleasant moment. To laugh when the joke is on oneself only makes a good thing better...
...back to the U. S. Paris. Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest all hailed his concerts. Famed were his performances in Show Boat at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Because he was a Negro, he was asked not to enter the Hotel Savoy dining-room. He handled the situation with grace and dignity. London, where dark-skinned East Indians get every obeisance, buzzed with sympathy...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...
After showing off his talkie-phone, Mr. Grace demonstrated the newly Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases...
...wife, June, at a revival and married her because she was a Christian and lived as God wanted her to. We said grace at each meal. At breakfast one morning the idea occurred to me to kill her for fear she might stray from the Christian life. This plan was strengthened by the fact that I soon lost my job and was unable to care...