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...Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia (see p. 24). Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers between Boston and New Orleans. Differing from bright predecessors only in size, the monster Monticello searchlight is the latest creation of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor of gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March 30, 1925, Nov. 1, 1926). At Scott Field, Ill., there is a Sperry light which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia...
...last are first. And the Freshman, who little cares for the splendor of a Cambridge summer or the magnificence of the prelude to a Harvard Commencement, must needs linger on until the last day of examinations. Only those happy individuals who have managed to avoid the first year monster, German A, have the privilege of deserting the scene of their labors at an early date. The rest, a group which includes most of the class, are fixtures until the noon which opens the recess...
...Haley of Manhattan defeated the hard-driving favorite, Cyril Tolley, one up. But Haley's fame was shortlived, for up popped Dr. Harold D. Gillies, a physician for the King of England, a famed golf theorist who tees his ball almost a foot high, who uses a monster-headed driver, who has studied the function of every muscle, nerve and blood vessel necessary for club-swinging. Dr. Gillies' favorite stunt is driving balls neatly off perpendicular beer bottles...
...women, stole their greatest treasures, beat them with sticks and fists. But they still loved him with ardor. His mistress (Gertrude Short) deserted him for the villain, buc decided she had made a bad second choice. Jealous the villain tries to kill the hero with a nasty gila monster but fails. Good cast, poor acting, fair entertainment...
...Inventor chases Mary up a roof, intent upon dashing her to earth, in the manner of spiteful evildoers since Desperate Desmond. The hero pursues. During the struggle, Capitalist Masterman swears if the hero (his son) be spared, he will henceforth treat all workingmen like brothers, never again allow a monster like Efficiency to be created. The villain topples off the roof. With Efficiency and Invention thus disposed of, happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency is to be rebuilt...