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...Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy pilot down easy...
...contained an item which caused amazement to many a student of human anatomy. The item: "Marechal de Bas-sompierre poured 13 [pint] bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said that the medieval historians had exaggerated, for it is impossible...
...thousand U. S. banks will be able to check up their depositors' withdrawals by photography before this year's end. Eastman Kodak Company's new Recordak apparatus (rental, $300 a year, capacity 16,000 checks per $5 in films) will provide conclusive proof that checks have really been paid. The Eastman Co. convinced itself of the usefulness and salability of the machine before it incorporated Recordak Corporation for $1,000,000 last fortnight...
...nameless organ-grinder with his pony-cart; Dan the newsman; Nappy, most venerable of taxi-drivers; these are proof enough that the genus still lives and flourishes. Smith Halls knows the melodious shout "Co - -al!"; the whole college has at least heard of Adolphe and Bob Lampoon; the whole college greets and is greeted...
Another week's dredging of the Oil Scandals produced proof of how Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contributions to the G. O. P. in 1923, after a Republican cabinet member had furtively enriched Sinclair with the Teapot Dome lease, were camouflaged by the G. O. P. management. The star witness was James A. Patten, fellowtownsman of Vice President Dawes (Evanston, Ill.)-plainspoken, upstanding, oldtime "wheat king" of the Chicago Board of Trade...