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Dixie Dugan’s Fathers
A MAN is never too young to become a cartoonist. John Striebel, who draws the widely popular “Dixie Dugan” cartoon strip, won national prominence at the age of fourteen when he was recognized as the youngest front-page cartoonist in the country. He was staff artist for the South Bend, Indiana, Daily News, doing a daily current event cartoon on topics of political and local prominence.
During those days young Striebel was a freshman at Notre Dame University in South Bend, and he turned to cartooning as the most congenial means of earning his way through college. Other students faced the same problem, and one day a fellow Notre Dame freshman came into the newspaper office in search of a job. He was a 15-year-old youngster who was promptly hired as an office boy. The two freshmen immediately became fast friends, and out of this early association sprang a partnership which has exerted a powerful influence on comic strip art.
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Outboard Makes Current to Keep Swimmers in Trim
COACHES have to resort to many devices to whip their teams into shape, but it remained for Hay Daughters, coach of the Washington Athletic Club swimming team in Seattle, Wash., to hook up an outboard motor on the edge of the pool in order to create a current, against which his team swims.
In the photo above is shown the Washington A. C. team fighting its way against the current created by the motor, preparing for Olympic contests.
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REVOLUTIONARY NEW CONCEPT IN TELEPHONE ANSWERING EQUIPMENT
Perfection in Service Free Telephone Answering equipment at a Low-Low-Direct to Diners Club Members Price
NEW! NEW! NEW! MODULAR CIRCUIT CONSTRUCTION marvel in new electronic design
NEW! All electronic unit— complete with its own Cassette Tape Recorder . . . vastly superior to any phone answering device we sold before and the first time ever offered for sale direct to the public.
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Modernistic “Wizard of Oz” in Tin
TO DISPLAY his skill with snips and soldering iron, as well as to attract attention to his shop, William A. Johnson, a Long Beach, Cal., sheet metal worker built a 12-foot metal figure which might pass for a modernistic “Wizard of Oz.” The remarkable figure is shown in the above photograph.
SUPERLINERS FOR WORLD SKYWAYS
NEW commercial transport planes, shrinking the United States to 1/200 the size of a century ago in terms of time, are incorporating a brand-new concept of comfort for the passenger. When airliners began operations in the late 1920s, the mechanics of operation were a primary consideration with designer and air-carrier companies. Today cushion-rubber chairs, modernistic lounges, and temperature controls are deemed as important as the navigational devices up front. To those are added speed; transcontinental flight in the Lockheed Constellation, for instance, is a matter of 10 hours, and crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Washington, D. C, and Paris, France, takes less than 13 hours. Designers and engineers are preparing other titans to speed the new era of air travel—Douglas’ DC-6, the huge Strato-cruiser by Boeing, and the gigantic Model 37, by Consolidated Vultee. Soon a passenger may breakfast in London, enjoy a late lunch in New York, and go to bed that evening in Los Angeles.
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WHO’S WHO in the Sky
LIKE the house flags of clipper ships, distinctive insignia mark today’s air liners. Here are the flying emblems of U.S. air lines using four-engine planes.
Lost: A Generation of Scientists
By LEON SHLOSS
Fundamental scientific research is at a standstill in America. That is the harsh fact of a matter that has been hushed and avoided too long. The cause is a literal interpretation of democracy that has yanked 150,000 men out of scientific studies to make a scant two percent of the total armed forces.
More than 15,000 of these drafted science students by now would be working toward their doctorates if they were British or Russian. But being Americans they were drafted. Also kidnapped by the armed forces were many brilliant practicing scientists who happened to be young and healthy. And unless Congress has been unusually alert in the few weeks it has taken to print this magazine, our present and future scientists are still being drafted, although trolley cars are running again in the ruins of Nagasaki.
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Start and warm up your car by remote control
This little radio unit sends signals to your car, and lets you start it in your driveway or in a parking lot up to 500 feet away. It also enables you to operate heater and air-conditioner controls. The unit, named Ramostar, can be set to shut off the engine after five to 15 minutes, and will warn you if anyone is trying to tamper with your car. It has 32,338 different code combinations. Prices from Ramostar, 708 Waukegan Road, Deerfield, Ill. 60015.
Strictly From Hunger
Bolts and bed springs may not be on your menu but some people swallow them and manage to stay alive.
By West F. Peterson
“DOC, I’ve got an awful stomach-ache.” a steelworker of Gary, Ind., complained recently to his physician. “It’s been bothering me ever since I was in jail on a trumped-up assault and battery charge. What do you think is wrong with me?”
“Hmmm,” said the medico, “might be appendicitis.” He prodded the patient’s abdomen, asked a series of questions and decided his snap diagnosis was correct.
But in the hospital the next morning, the doctor had barely started to operate when his scalpel clinked against some metallic objects lodged inside the husky laborer. Hastily he sewed up the incision and ordered the patient’s removal to the X-ray room.
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I guess that’s one route to keypad dialing.
“Key Caller” Speeds Phone Service
MAKING telephone number connections three times faster than can be done with an ordinary dial device is the work accomplished by a recent London invention. The “key caller,” as machine is called, consists of an instrument resembling a small typewriter.
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