Word: threes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Like a Fuller Brush salesman, Mr. Madigan has been canvassing the little towns behind the Berkeley hills, touting his track to Lions clubs and other horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island...
...Herald is 100 years old. Though an afternoon paper, with a circulation of only 240,000, it is a sort of London Times in miniature. The "Murdoch press" has tentacles in three of Australia's six States, boasts a combined (daily & Sunday) circulation of more than 1,040,000-which is considerable on a continent of 7,000,000 inhabitants. But Sir Keith, except for a small interest in the Sydney Sun, has no newspaper holdings in New South Wales-a section as important in Australia as the Eastern coast...
...Foil, Menzies' successor as Minister of Information, started his career as secretary to the Minister of Railroads in Queensland, fought in World War I until he was invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given as Henry...
...Cambridge for blueprints. Unwilling to dismantle the machine for the sake of exact measurements, Cambridge sent only sketches, which showed valves in impossible places and other aberrations. Nevertheless Dr. Lane persevered, correcting the mistakes in the sketches by hunch and logic as he went along. It took him three years, cost $5,000. Last week he announced that he had successfully completed a Kapitza liquefier, was making liquid helium for low-temperature research quickly and safely, and at a cost of $5 a quart. It is the only Kapitza liquefier in the Western Hemisphere...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...