Atlantic City Successfully Stages Indoor Football Game

ELECTRICAL engineers made possible the playing of the first indoor football game in the vast Atlantic City auditorium. The 20,000 thrilled spectators had no difficulty in enjoying the night game, thanks to the use of a white football and the powerful lighting system which assured the best visibility. A battery of more than 600 floodlight projectors, spaced 14 feet apart in the trusses arching across the curved ceiling, poured artificial light down on the large field.

Engineers transported 48 cars of dirt from the interior of New Jersey to provide an earthen playing field.

This Amphibian Row-Mobile Travels Equally Well on Land or Water

Land or water—it makes no difference to the passengers of this combination boat and automobile. The “amphibile” is propelled by the rowing motion of the occupants. The front wheels are used to steer both on land and in water.

This article really reminds me of the internet. Considering that there is a Facebook group called “The London 2012 olympics logo looks like lisa simpson giving head” (it really does) with 59,000 members, these clubs don’t seem nearly as weird as they probably did when it was printed.

Some of the clubs have a pretty interesting history. Check out the Wikipedia entry for Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters “George”.

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REBELS, BEAVERS AND INJUN-COLLECTORS

Are you lonely, energetic, angry, lazy, funny-looking, bored or gregarious? Don’t suppress it—join a club.

By Dan Valentine

THERE’S an old saying that whenever three Americans get together on a street corner, they form a club and elect officers.

If there isn’t such an old saying, there should be, because America is club crazy.

There are clubs for bald-headed men, for fat ladies, for people who like salami.

There are clubs for tall girls, for people who see flying saucers, for lawyers who have been dispossessed by government agencies.

There are clubs for amateur liars . . . for nudists . . . Read the rest of this entry »

Walls at German Auto Show

MOTORCYCLES by the hundreds covered the walls of the exhibition buildings at the recent Motor Show in Berlin. As shown in the photo at the left, the cycles were hung seven-deep upon the walls, with a row of machines fitted with side-car equipment occupying a ledge beneath. Read the rest of this entry »

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Movie Shown on 2 Screens

A remarkable new movie theater in Los Angeles projects films on auxiliary screens in its lounge rooms by use of a light-proof tube and reflecting mirrors.

AN ELABORATE new talkie theater now being built in Los Angeles, home of the movies, is able to project its feature film to one or more auxiliary screens in its lounge rooms, simultaneously with the showing on the main auditorium screen.
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This would be great. I live in Portland, Oregon, a city in the grip of food cart mania and home to Powell’s City of Books. It seems like someone here would’ve tried this.

“Vagabond” Shop Supplies Isolated Summer Resorts With New Books

LITERARY needs in fashionable but far distant resorts are provided for by this traveling book shop, shown in the photo below. This movable shop parks in some shady corner of a summer resort where books usually consist of the Bible and a school history of the United States. Its stock comprises popular fiction, classics and rare volumes of all natures. Read the rest of this entry »

Going Abroad?

THEN WHY SHOP AROUND FOR YOUR STEAMSHIP RESERVATIONS Your steamship ticket is your admission card to the boat that carries you to foreign shores. Its reservation is your first requirement in preparing for your journey and the earlier you make it, the more your stateroom will approximate your wishes.

Many factors enter into the purchase of a steamship ticket—the line, ship, class, sailing date, speed, and, of course, the cost. Shopping around by the hazardous trial-and-error method is a waste of time and effort. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Wife Swapping Risky

A distinguished psychiatrist replies to a reader who suggests wife-swapping as a means of increasing married happiness.

By Walter R. Stokes, M.D., LL.B.

LETTER FROM A READER:
In your March 1963 issue, under the title “Question of the Month,” you published a letter from one of your readers in which he confessed his desire that he and his wife hare extramarital sexual relations by mutual consent. Your reply was very interesting.

But, maybe due to a lack of experience on your part with situations like this, the sexual aspect was not discussed clearly enough. In my opinion many others have the same desires as your letter writer. Read the rest of this entry »

SHARP IDEA FROM SWEDEN
JOYRIDING is the latest teenage craze in Sweden, and a large number of midnight cops-and-kids chases at Daytona speeds have ended in bad injuries and demolished cars. To discourage these shenanigans Swedish cops now use a strip of nails that can be laid across a road on which joyriders are careering. The hollow nails, if picked up, let air escape slowly, deflate tire within 200 yards.

WHAT’S HE DOING?

QUESTION: What is this guy doing to the terrier—measuring him for a seersucker suit?
Clue: No. The answer is below, upside down.
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Floating Airports of the Sea

Ocean stepping-stones in the form of floating seadromes bid fair to cut down the hazards of trans-Atlantic flights.

Regular airplane service across the Atlantic is brought a step nearer reality by the projection of plans for a series of floating landing fields which can be anchored at intervals of a thousand miles between America and Europe, affording a safe place for passenger carrying planes to come down for refueling and mechanical attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Bernard Shaw’s Rotating House Is an Aid to Health

A REVOLVING turntable is one of the factors in the splendid health of George Bernard Shaw, famous English author. At the age of 72, he is in the prime of physical condition and attributes it partially to his appreciation of sunlight. Mr. Shaw has a plan to keep the sun shining on him constantly while he works. Read the rest of this entry »