Because when I want to pay tribute to something the first thing that comes to mind is using it as an ashtray.
.A Tribute to Football
by Grantland Rice
Blocking backs and interference -Fifty thousand wild adherents –
Tackle thrusts and headlong clashes, Two yard bucks and dizzy dashes,
Head and shoulder, heart and soul, Till you fall across the goal.
And another all-star eleven – They Satisfy
“A hoop?” winced the toy man. “Who’d buy a hoop?”“Just kids,” Melin and Knerr chorused.
Sound’s like it’s right out of the Hudsucker Proxy (video link)
.How Those Hula-Hoops Got Rolling
By James Joseph
CREW-CUT and boyish Spud Melin, 33, went to grammar school one day last April and graduated into the ranks of America’s youngest millionaires.
Rolling a bright plastic hoop into his daughter’s Sierra Madre, Calif., schoolyard, Spud invited a couple of fourth graders to give it a whirl.
“Like this,” Spud demonstrated, as he stepped into the hoop. He held it waist high, spun it with his hands and kept it going with hula-like gyrations of hip and body.
.At one time skim milk was used only by dieting females. But now government research labs have found other uses for the casein fiber derived from it. See above: 1, 3 and 7, brushes; 2 and 6, straight fiber; 4, curled fiber used in carburetor air filters; 5. stiff cloth produced from bristle fiber.
.Society Explorers Brave Jungle for Diamonds
DIAMONDS, bringing riches to those who win and death to those who fail, lure men to strange places.
William La Varre, American explorer, geologist and geographer, is the latest to fight on for the glowing brilliance which man defines as wealth and which science recognizes only as pure carbon.
.Capt. Rickenbacker’s Airplane of the Future
By CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER
America’s war-time ace of aces who is now prominently connected with Fokker Aircraft tells of the remarkable ships of tomorrow now being built, and predicts revolutionary developments in flying.
SEVEN years ago with a pilot, mechanic and a traveling companion, I began an air tour of the United States.
It was a visionary journey in a cabin plane, with my companion, a young newspaper friend, making his first air tour. We rode in the cabin of the plane, carried our luggage in the baggage compartment and caused no little commotion as we began our trip from a landing field near New York City.
.MOTOR WHEEL FOR CHEAP TRANSPORTATION
POWERED by a motorcycle engine and operated through the conventional handlebar control, a rubber-tired motor wheel has been invented which is claimed to represent the ideal in cheap and rapid transportation. The device is so simple that a youngster can operate it. The large wheel is fitted with a continuous inner track along which run a series of flanged wheels on which the mechanism revolves. The rider is seated inside the wheel on a regulation motorcycle saddle.
.Beam of Light Carries Music
Powerful Ray Speeds Radio Program Across Half-Mile of City Buildings RADIO fans witnessed a twentieth-century marvel, the other night, when they listened to a radio program transmitted over a ray of light.
High in the tower of the Chrysler Building, in New York City, an orchestra played before a microphone. No land wire linked it to the broadcasting studio half a mile away. Instead, the blue beam of a 50.000-candlepower searchlight sped the music across intervening rooftops.
I had no idea that people were working on in-flight refueling this early.
.FILLING STATIONS of the SKY
How Fuel Is Passed From One Plane to Another to Keep Record Shattering Endurance Flyers Aloft Hour After Hour Ever wonder how endurance flyers managed to take on fuel, oil and food when on their record-breaking jaunts? The special technique employed by their sky tank wagons is graphically explained in the drawings and photos on these pages.
That’s an amazingly modern looking camera for 1936.
.Television Turret Camera Sends Movies of Olympics
Bleacherites ten miles away from the Olympic stadium saw the sports events by television. Mounted on a movable pedestal like a turret gun, a television movie camera trained its giant eye on the international games and transmitted the action pictures to distant bleachers and to a projection room in the German post-office headquarters. Done experimentally, the reception was not always clearly defined.
.TESTS NOW SHOW IF CHILD IS TONE DEAF OR MUSICAL
Has Junior a natural ear for music? Or are his piano lessons wasted effort? It’s easy to find out at once, according to Prof. Harold M. Williams, of the University of Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. Tests he has devised show whether a child has a real sense of rhythm and whether he can keep a tune in singing.
