It’s the Biggest… It’s the Newest… But Palomar Telescope Won’t See Far Enough!
BY LOGAN REAVIS
SOME time this year an astronomer will peer for the first time through the largest telescope the world has ever known—will penetrate space to a distance of two billion light years farther than the eye of man has ever explored.
But he won’t see far enough.
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“two panoramic additions to the Seven Hills of Rome” is my new favorite euphemism for breasts.
HOW ANITA EKBERG WAS DUPED INTO A ROMAN ORGY
The real inside on the hottest party since Little Egypt
by BENITO CARLO, Jr.
As a publicity grabber Anita Ekberg is well out in front of all Hollywood headline hunters, so it was hardly a surprise to her intimates when the sultry Swede made the front pages recently by being involved in a police raid on a torrid Roman ‘orgy.’ A few months later she again made news by announcing her intention to divorce her British actor-husband Anthony Steele. Read the rest of this entry »
Homemade Amphib
below can be pedalled across water at five knots and overland at a steady 18-mph, claims the man who built it, Norman Skyes of Cheshire, England.
It is made mostly of wood, has three wheels and can be mass-produced cheaply, he says.
Let me show you how to make more money than you ever thought possible as a professional Chimney Sweep
Read my story, if you like the idea of earning $150 per day part time, $700 or more weekly in a business of your own . . .
My name is Tom Risch. I’m 28 years old, own my own home, a 22 ft sailboat and an antique Morgan sports car. I suppose more than anyone, I’m the person responsible for “re-inventing” the chimney sweep business — as I’D shortly explain. Read the rest of this entry »
Four Novel Toys You Can Make With Rubber Balloons
These drawings show the construction of four novel toys made from circus balloons that will prove highly fascinating. Fill the balloon with hydrogen and attach to it a postcard bearing your name, and a request to return it from whatever point it falls to earth. Read the rest of this entry »
TEN STAG MOVIE SUBJECTS
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GREATEST ADULT MOVIE BARGAIN EVER!
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you to get ten delightfully different, sensationally thrilling stag shows on film FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE! Read the rest of this entry »
AUTO RACING MUST BE OUTLAWED!
BY SENATOR RICHARD L. NEUBERGER
with Lester DavidIT happened recently in my home State of Oregon: A car driven by a young automobile race driver hurtled out of control at Portland Speedway and crashed into a retaining wall. Don Porter, father of four small children and himself only 31, died violently.
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Patents ~ Nutty or Novel?
HERE are a few more recently patented “dream kites” which the inventors who planned them hope will soar to dizzy heights of fame and fortune. Just how useful they will prove to be only time can tell.
Which Are They—Nutty or Novel?
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Ants as Household Pets
ANT houses for children to build and watch at school and at home, as many schools and homes now keep bowls of goldfish or other kinds of aquaria, have been introduced at Hanover, New Hampshire, by Prof. Frank E. Austin of Dartmouth College. An ant house consists of two sheets of glass held in a wooden frame, like the two panes of a double window. Read the rest of this entry »
The Old Songs are the Best Songs
The world’s great music is on Victor Red Seal Records
Let us pause a moment, Gentlemen, and welcome the past. Let us lay aside our invoices and debentures, our politics and our coal-bills. . . . For tonight an old familiar company is with us. . . . Nelly Bly is here, and Old Black Joe . . . Uncle Ned, My Old Kentucky Home . . . Jeanie with the light brown hair . . . Old Folks at Home. . . . And with them their banjos and cotton bales, their slow brown rivers. . . . Read the rest of this entry »
BURIED ALIVE with the Tunnel Builders
Deep in the earth, men bore through mountains and under river beds to build our tunnels. Deadly peril constantly stalks them. Here is the thrilling story of their work— one of America’s most hazardous occupations.
by Alfred Albelli
GROPING along like so many human moles, the Montague street tunnel crew pushed its way beneath the East river, separating Brooklyn and New York City. One moment the big cutting shield was boring steadily forward—the next, disaster struck with the fury of a tornado. The shield had cut through to the riverbed above! Read the rest of this entry »
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