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...Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness...
...bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started an experimental laboratory...
Buzzing bees in Sanders Theatre's brickwork threw the maintenance department into confusion, taxed the College treasury, and necessitated the demolishment of a wall yesterday...
After seizing Amba Aradam, the Marshal threw every soldier he could spare into Tembien Province, to the west of his main advance. There his right flank was being menaced by two of Ethiopia's greatest generals, the wily Ras Seyoum and Ras Kassa. If they could be annihilated, the world would be in a mood to agree that "the Ethiopians are licked!" Politically such a world opinion would do Italy the most good if it coincided with this week's arrival in Geneva of Captain Anthony Eden of Great Britain and his League colleagues to decide whether...
...bold acquiescence in the "execution" by Wrinkle-Face, who quietly walked out into the garden and stood up to a firing squad which shot him down. In either case mortally wounded Wrinkle-Face collapsed in a great splotch of his blood upon the snow, and one of the mustards threw a piece of matting over the corpse which was soon covered by the falling flakes...