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...Coach Lambert's indiscretion. Purdue's two throws tied the score; Ohio's broke the tie and won the game. Last week there was talk of "severing relations" between Purdue and Ohio. After their second game, which Ohio won 29 to 17, police had to shield Ohio State's Bill Hosket from a Purdue crowd...
...Wallace Crane, wife of the president of the Hamilton National Bank, shoots a man who comes to see her at her Park Avenue apartment. Margot Hale, an actress, decides to shield her friend, even at the risk of ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses...
Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield...
...shown that this is not indispensable if the ballyhoo is sufficiently vigorous. Many a spectator at a football game does not know what it is all about. He sees only the struggling figures, and if he has good luck may each sight of some warrior carried out on his shield--sometimes wounded, perhaps slain--to make a Roman holiday...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat...