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...Thing (RKO Radio) is a ferocious vegetable, eight feet tall, delivered on a flying saucer from another world. It bleeds green, howls like an aggravated banshee, multiplies by dropping seeds into the earth. It thinks like Einstein, looks like Frankenstein's monster and, like Dracula, thrives only on a diet of human blood...
...result was a spectacle in the best DeMille tradition. For six weeks, Paramount hirelings bought and built a circus train with two animal cars, two circus flat cars, two Pullmans, a job lot of animal cages, and hundreds of feet of tracks. Then a monster crane wheeled on to the set, dangling a huge house-wrecking ball, and reduced the $200,000 investment to a shambles. When Perfectionist DeMille was finally satisfied with the destruction, two cheetahs, three lions, a black panther, a puma, an elephant and a band of monkeys were sent swarming through the block-long wreckage (along...
...there is an Ivy League baseball game, with Army, a lacrosse game with Williams, a track meet in the Stadium with Dartmouth, and possibly a cricket match or a rugby game, and an intersquad scrimmage in spring football. In addition there are four easily observable freshman contests, and a monster crew race down in the Charles basin, cleverly timed so that the feature races take place only after the Soldiers Field events are long since past...
When exam period is all over, the Key Punch returns to record 262950's grades. These are fed into the Tabulator, a little monster with an electronic memory which chatters out everything from the grade sheets sent home to father to statistics, proudly posted on bulletin boards, about the number of dean's list men in each House. But before these facts are sent out, they must go through the Interpreter which translates the little holes into English...
Following the last war, the non-scheduled airlines advertised that they were the returning veterans who were in the air transport business to give the customer a break; and that they would crack the monopolies of the "horrible monster airlines." However, American Airlines now employs three times the number of veterans that all the independent lines combined have employed...