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...darkness just before one dawn last week an automobile sped into that part of New York City which lies north of the Harlem River, ground to a halt at the great Bronx Terminal Market. Foodhandlers, working under arc lights, stopped to stare and pound their frozen hands together, as out of the car emerged a small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle...
...street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that the weeping man was Rose Samanoff's husband...
...Belgian Gerard Debaets explained why 100,000 customers trudged into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week to witness the 59th International Six-Day Bicycle Race. Not to be mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
...class in abnormal psychology in Atlanta, Ga.'s Emory University, Professor W. G. Workman, trying vainly to hypnotize a student for demonstration purposes by monotonous talk and having him stare at a chalk line, suddenly noticed that a watching member of the class had gone into a rigid trance. It was Charles Hudson, lonely, nervous junior, a star pupil in abnormal psychology. Professor Workman could not bring Charles Hudson out of the trance, prescribed exercise and normal activity. For three days fellow-students walked the blank-eyed boy around the campus, rode him on street cars, took...
Typical of the cinema method employed in Things to Come is the passage describing what happens when they leave the Earth: "Clouds of dust obscure the screen and clear to show the crowd after the shock. Some press their ears as if they were painful, others stare under their hands up into the sky. Then the crowd begins to stream back towards the city . . . in a straggling, aimless manner, and pausing ever and again to stare...