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...gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company sit down to listen to a broadcast of an Albert Hall concert at whose crescendo the anarchists' triggerman will fire his revolver. Good shot: Mrs. Lawrence, in the audience at Albert Hall, watching a gunbarrel emerge slowly from a curtain...
...months ago, 4,400 young amateur boxers, most of them so timid, rickety, fat or ungraceful that their interest in fisticuffs suggested lack of good sense, signed entry blanks in the Golden Gloves Boxing tournament sponsored by the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. Last week, this monster tournament reached its annual climax in the Chicago Stadium. A capacity crowd watched a Chicago team win the last eight three-round bouts on the program, beat New York 11 bouts to 5 in the inter-city finals...
...weight, or 1,350 Ib. . . . I took off and went up to 15,000 ft. and stuck her down to 300 m.p.h. I horsed back on the stick and watched the accelerometer. Up she went, and down into my seat I went. Centrifugal force, like some huge invisible monster, pushed my head down into my shoulders and squashed me into that seat so that my backbone bent and I groaned with the force of it. it drained the blood from my head and started to blind me. I watched the accelerometer through a deepening haze. . . . I was blind...
Around Douglas Aircraft Co.'s busy, super-efficient factory at Santa Monica, Calif. have lately been eddying exciting rumors. Whispers were heard of a monster armored air cruiser being built in holy secrecy to make the U. S. top-dog of the Pacific (see col. 2). Fortnight ago part of Donald Wills Douglas' secret got out. To Santa Monica Beach was shipped, in sections, what appeared to be a huge aircraft. Next day when crowds flocked to see it assembled, police and a corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films...
...persons one day last week trooped down into a basement of the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia. There they found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make a curved graph on white paper...