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Deeply religious, Lawrence Saint attributes his artistic success to trust in the Lord, has for 15 years faithfully discharged his duties as elder at the Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, rests after Sunday service, sleeps with black goggles to shield his candid blue eyes, which are abnormally sensitive to light. For recreation, he interprets handwriting and plays such hymns as Oh Happy Day that Fixed My Choice and I Was a Wandering Sheep on his mouth organ...
...their lives. A dog falls from an airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated the din of the machine. Anthony opened his eyes again and was in time to see a dark shape rushing down towards him. He uttered a cry, made a quick and automatic movement to shield his face. With a violent but dull and muddy impact, the thing struck the flat roof a yard or two from where they were lying." Helen went back to her husband and Anthony was left alone with his thoughts...
...with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored U. P. shield on its snout. Though in an enterprising industrial company such a change would cause no comment, in a railroad it was startling enough to make headlines...
...been letting out his business section budget, and Editor Munger has expanded, hired a battery of specialists. In his year-end review Editor Munger had a stock-market chart for 1935 with major movements explained by cartoons of Chief Justice Hughes, the Blue Eagle exploding, Haile Selassie with shield and spear, etc. Most exciting moment in Editor Munger's journalistic career occurred in 1934 when his appendix burst while he was writing the story of a proxy fight to oust Montgomery Ward's Sewell Lee Avery...
...Lawrence's neutron beam, though designed only to harry atoms, is probably the nearest actual approach to the lethal ray of fiction. He decided therefore to take ample precautions. The control panel was moved 50 ft. from the beam and between them was interposed as a shield a three-foot wall of water the hydrogen in which is most effective in braking neutrons...