CIRCUS ON THE CAMPUS
The big show at Florida State U. is all part of this school’s “High Flying” curriculum.
GO TO college and join the circus. That’s what collegians at Florida State University in Tallahassee do at the only school in the land where students can learn the circus profession for credits! Read the rest of this entry »
And Now It’s Zippers on Hats
THE newest wrinkle in ladies’ headwear is a zipper attachment which is utilized for both ornamentation and head comfort. Patches of hair may now be seen through milady’s hat when the wearer zips it open for comfort during warmer weather. Its creator, A. Kaner, predicts wide use of the new mode.
The Most Important 30 Minutes of Your Life
By Lester David
AT 12:30 p. m. an atomic bomb is going . to explode in your city! Radar has spotted an enemy airplane and disclosed its course, speed and the arc on which it is traveling.
It’s noon now and you have 30 minutes— 1800 crucial seconds—to prepare for the bomb. What will you do?
You and your family can survive if you take the proper precautions at the proper time. Atomic scientists, civilian defense authorities, army officials and Red Cross disaster chiefs agree on this. Read the rest of this entry »
IT’S NEW
COP ARMOR passes a rigid test in Detroit as inventor Harvey Freeman lets bullets sink into the 60-lb. plastic shell Note headlights for night cops.
SAP SACKS are now replacing buckets in our sugar maple groves. Unlike the sack dress these are filled up, likely to stay.
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING is really possible with this new Danish plastic furniture.
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Skiing Like Flying With Bat-Like Cape
LOOKING more like a bat than a man, this skier is demonstrating the sail-cape. It serves alternately as a sail and as a brake, and in the former capacity is said to give the user the same sensation as a flight through space. To protect the skier from windburn, a hood envelops his entire head, leaving free only the mouth and nose.
“ICE LIZARD”
by L. B. Robbins
AIR minded, ice-boat and mechanically-inclined fans: here is something to arouse your imagination and ingenuity—an air propelled ice-boat using a washing-machine engine for power and capable of good speed and breath-taking thrills. Let’s build a fleet of these “Ice Lizards” for the height of the skating season and give the populace something to talk about.
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Finally, science accomplishes something important!
Puppets May Now Smoke
The high spot of a marionette show now touring the country is when one of the tiny puppets lights up a cigarette, inhales the smoke, and blows it out. The picture above shows the puppet under the guidance of invisible strings, and below, how the smoking stunt is accomplished.
DON’T GET STUCK By STOCK GYPS
Want to make a buck in the market? You can be bilked of your dough.
By SIMON LEE GARTH
IN AN upstairs bedroom a woman lay dying of cancer. Downstairs in the living room her husband was talking business in low tones with a distinguished-looking stranger.
The stranger was Joseph H. Schoenberger, 70, and every inch of his well-groomed appearance suggested the prosperous, sincere businessman, the pillar of the community.
Their business completed, Schoenberger suggested, “Let us now bow our heads for a few moments in silent prayer for your afflicted wife.”
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Giant Chronograph
watch was built at the Western Pennsylvania Horological Institute to teach students how to repair this type of timepiece. It’s 23 inches in diameter and the entire movement weighs about 60 pounds. The difference between this model and its tiny counterpart is that the big watch has its transparent face on the back.
In case you’re wondering. The “H. C. OF L.” referred to in the blurb under the pictures of the goats stands for High Cost of Living. Apparently this was a common enough term that people could just use the abbreviation. Perhaps it’s time to bring it back.
Little Oddities of Life
Lanky Bob Fitzsimmons Dons the Gloves Again
Not against Jess Willard, however. This time Bob has tackled even a sturdier and more wiry foe—His Satanic Majesty. Mr. Fitzsimmons has announced his intention of starting a career as an evangelist.
QUINTUPLETS?
Here are “Bill”. “Hill”, “Will”, ‘Phil”, and John Smythe of Oklahoma. John has his back turned, but you may take our word for the fact that his face matches . What is your explanation of this extraordinary photograph?
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He’s a Plastic Baker
Somebody forgot to tell Spencer Smilie that it couldn’t be done. So he went on cooking plastics and developed a recipe for fortune.
By Louis Hochman
IF Spencer Smilie of Beverly Hills, Calif., had studied chemistry and physics, he . might still be plodding along at his job in a plastics factory. But, unhampered by sound scientific know-how and not realizing how impossible it was supposed to be to fuse incompatible combinations of plastics, Smilie solved an unsolvable problem. Today his plastics art business—the only one of its kind in the world—is worth a small fortune. Read the rest of this entry »
Air Rifles Have Lever
Hand Pump A well known type of air rifle has been improved by the addition of an easy lever hand pump action. The gun also has bolt action, hammer fire, hair trigger, safety and adjustable sights.
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