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...five sets. His performances at home and abroad this summer have made him the sensation of the tennis year. He is the first U. S. player since Vines who really appears to have the potentialities of a world champion - provided he does not turn professional before he reaches his peak game. Furthermore, whether he beats Perry next week or not, experts were agreed that if he goes on improving at his present rate, he may well do so in the future...
...this young material, such men as George Ford, Leo Ecker, Tommy Bilodeau, Emile Dubiel, and Arthur Oakes. All of these men have shown something on Freshman or last year's Varsity teams, but none are really finished, Grade A, foll-time players as yet. Ford didn't reach his peak until the Yale game last season and Bilodeau has never quite shown the super-performance of which he seems to be capable...
Page & Shaw did not remain obscure for long. Styling itself "the only international candy company," it opened branches in England, France and Canada, a chain of swank stores from Manhattan to San Francisco. By 1924 its sales reached a peak of 2,200,000 lb. per year. Then troubles came to Page & Shaw. Sales slumped, cash dwindled. Control had fallen into the hands of a Boston lawyer named Otis Emerson Dunham. Promoter Dunham shocked the Boston Better Business Bureau by giving away one share of common stock with every $2 worth of candy. In 1930 Promoter Dunham and two stockbrokers...
Thermocouples are activated by infra-red radiation as well as by starlight. It would be possible to put the thermocouple at the focus of a movable parabolic reflector, and to assume, when a peak of electrical activity was noted, that the reflector was trained on some strong source of radiation-such as a metal ship out to sea in the dark. If this is how the Signal Corps' ship-finder works, it differs in no essential detail from the infra-red "Fog-eye" developed by Paul Humphrey Macneil and successfully demonstrated two years ago (TIME...
...notable feature of the early 1920's was the Stutz Bearcat, a fast & flashy automobile that rode, looked, and sounded like a racing car. About the same time that Bearcats were reaching the peak of playboy popularity, Stutz Motor stock provided some excellent advertising by rising in a brief period from $70 per share to $724. That was the notorious "Stutz Corner" engineered by Allan Ryan, son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan who in his will cut off his speculative heir with a set of pearl studs...