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Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...
...Tourist camp operators on Northern Ontario's Muskellunge Lake complained that a giant fish (estimated weight: 40 Ibs.) was ruining business. The monster reared out of the water, shaking his head and rattling the assortment of fishermen's plugs and hooks broken off in his jaws. The noise, it seemed, was frightening tenderfoot fishermen off the lake...
...indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...
Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing, staring people. He began to regain his appetite, soon was consuming 22 Ibs. of fruit, bread and milk. Last week he was able to get up and count the house. Veterinarians decided that Bushman, though enfeebled, might live on for months, or even years. But even if he died sooner...
...Strip Tease. The Communist Party immediately called for a nationwide general strike and a monster rally in Tokyo to protest the trial of the eight rioters. The Japanese government forbade any Communist open-air meetings until after the elections. On the day set for the protest rally Tokyo ran blue with police. The Communists had announced that they expected 30,000 to come to the rally, but it ended up as a subdued meeting of only 5,000. The general strike, too, was a fizzle. Communists had predicted that 400,000 workers would leave their jobs; actually about...