MI’S TIE BAR BROOCH
BEEN awarded a Golden Hammer Tie Bar you’d like to convert to a brooch for your best gal? It’s easy: (1) peel off the tie clip with needle-nose pliers; (2) mold aluminum foil around the hammer to dissipate heat rapidly when soldering and so protect the finish; (3) solder a two-piece pin back in place and (4) you have it. You can get pin backs at your local hobby shop or from Immerman’s, 1020 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 15, Ohio.
Right, dealing inside an opaque table that has four card sharps’ hands under it is the best way to prevent cheating.
Table Deals Bridge Cards
THE latest aid for the expedition of bridge games is a machine which shuffles and deals hand of cards to the players. An interior and exterior view of the table is shown below. Read the rest of this entry »
The explanation given sounds roughly like how an LCD works. What do you think the mystery material was that went transparent when current was applied?
Scanning Method Brings Television Movies
THE progress of television has long been retarded by the lack of an efficient light source which could react instantaneously to the fluctuations of incoming radio currents and at the same time be powerful enough to project the image upon a large theatre screen. Read the rest of this entry »
How’s Your Taste In Tubs?
This type was popular with the traveling man of the 1850′s. It was shaped to fit body contour, featured rounded back. Curves make for easy pick-up.
For hot and cold running arias, complete to stage and spotlight, this tub is ideal for bathing baritones who appreciate soap-opera.
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LOOK, MA, no hands! Kellett Aircraft’s experimental ‘copter uses new gyro stabilizing system.
New Racing Cars Do Four Miles a Minute
By RAY F. KUNS
FOUR hundred feet in the wink of an eyelid—that’s what the modern racing car can do! The story of the development of these 250 mile an hour cars is fascinatingly told here by Mr. Kuns, who knows the racing game as few men do.
EIGHT MILES an hour, 20 miles an hour, then 30, 40, 50, 75, a hundred —and now 250 miles an hour, or more than four miles a minute! This is the incredible accomplishment of the racing automobile, which was born upwards of 30 years ago and which today has attained a degree of perfection undreamed of by Barney Oldfield, Ralph DePalma, or those other daredevil drivers of the old dirt tracks! Read the rest of this entry »
Bob Dole really needs to read this copy in the next Viagra ad. What do you think would move more product? Talking about “erectile dysfunction” or telling a man he’s “droopy and draggy?”
When Your Girl Friend says “YOU NEED MORE PEP”
Take a booster Tablet You Get an Amazing Pick-Me-Up.
And when you’re droopy and draggy from normal fatigue . . . you may get a REAL BOOST—a LIFT without a letdown—when you take BOOSTER tablets. Then RIGHT AWAY you may feel READY FOR FUN … all set “TO GO”. That’s because BOOSTER tablets are the FAST ACTING PICK-ME-UP that go to work IN A HURRY . . . may make YOU MORE KEENLY FEEL every minute of fun … may help YOU GET BACK “IN THE MOOD” Read the rest of this entry »
HERE’S “VELCRO”
VELCRO may put the zipper out of business. This new fastening material is made of two nylon strips. One contains oodles of microscopic hooks; the other oodles of microscopic loops. Pressed together they form an amazingly strong union, yet peel open easily.
I love that picture on the first page. He really looks like he’s thinking hard. It seems like he was quite the bright guy.
The obituaries don’t say what he died from. If I had to take a guess, I’d go with the 60 cigarettes a day he smoked.
Brainy Man Builds Better Brains
What does it take to be an electronics genius? Here is a profile of a young British candidate.
THE electronic genius of 27-year-old Gordon Pask hasn’t exactly stood the world on its ear. For example, his first invention, a musical typewriter, was simply too expensive to run. T Read the rest of this entry »
Tomorrow’s Pens
THE pen at left is solar-powered, burning an impression onto the paper with an electric arc. The instrument above is a Voice-Writer, combining a dictaphone with a script-writing pen. Both are dreams of Parker Pen Co. stylists, preparing for tomorrow’s brave new world .
Catching Cold for Science
TO revolutionize present heating and air-conditioning methods, scientists are studying body heat radiation, methods of heat loss and skin sensitivity.
The photo below shows a human guinea pig, his feet in “ankle boxes,” where drafts of various temperatures, humidity and velocity, are played. Skin temperatures are recorded to determine just how much an individual can “take.”
This article manages to be incredibly condescending, naive, and wrong all at the same time.
The Shocking Tragedy of Negroes Who Pass As White
by ERNEST WARREN
Back in the days when recognition was just coming to him, Sammy Davis, Jr., looked like the ideal choice to fill an important serio-dramatic part in a new movie. When the expected bid failed to materialize, a friend tried to console Sammy. “Don’t worry about it, kid,” the friend said, “You know you’re better than the guy they picked. Read the rest of this entry »
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