TIN-FOIL SCULPTURE
How One Man Makes Good Use of a Common Wrapping Material That Most of Us Throw Away
THIRTY years ago, as a child, Paul E. Tichon began collecting scraps of tin foil. He still does. In the meantime, every scrap he could lay his hands on he has converted into hundreds of delicately hand-wrought pieces of “sculpture,” some of which are illustrated on these pages.
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Church Cut In Half To Make Way For New Street
ONE of the most unusual engineering feats in recent years was the moving of a 4,000,000-pound Detroit church steeple to make way for a wider street. The 180-foot stone tower was moved by seven men while hundreds of breathless spectators looked on. Working under the direction of Carl F. Henrichsen and Carl A. Johnson, veteran building movers, the men first cut out a 27-foot section of the church so that the front could be moved back the same amount. Read the rest of this entry »
“From then on I was too consarned cold to feel anything very much.”
I thought consarned was a typo, but it would have been weird since the correct replacement would have been “consumed by” or “concerned with the”. Turns out it means: confounded; damned.
New Midget Scouts of the Air
by Lieut. RALPH S. BARNABY, U.S.N. First Man to Pilot a Glider from a Dirigible
If scouts were important to old style warfare, they are doubly important to the new warfare of the air. Army and Navy officials have experimented with every possible idea. Only recently they tested the value of gliders for scout work from dirigibles at Lakehurst. Lieut. Barnaby tells here his story of gliding a motorless ship from the dirigible Los Angeles.
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YOU’LL HAVE PLENTY TO SHOW OFF in the high-spirited performance of your NEW CHEVROLET. With its radical new Turbo-Thrust V8* and new action in all engines, it’s so quick, agile and eager that once you take the wheel, you’ll never want to leave it. You’ve got your hands on something really special!
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Hypnosis and Sex
Despite popular belief, a hypnotized person cannot be made to violate his (or her) moral code. By Hugo G. Beigel, Ph.D.
Whenever hypnosis is discussed with a layman, one question inevitably comes up: “Can you make your subject do whatever you want?”
In posing that question some people think of the crimes which evil characters in cheap thrillers force their victims to commit. Most of them, however, have sex in mind. Women want to know whether they could be taken advantage of. Young men usually mean: “Would a girl undress if I told her it’s bed-time?”
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Radio Store Provides Free Clubroom for Wireless Amateurs
IN the back of a retail electrical store located in the skyscraper section of New York City, there is a unique club-room for radio amateurs. A full set of radio receiving equipment has been installed with an aerial on the roof. Apparatus can be tested out in actual practice, and the visiting amateur is given the privilege of taking any piece of apparatus from stock to connect up and use as he sees fit. Read the rest of this entry »
Handsome Traffic Tower for Fifth Avenue Unveiled
IN ORDER that New York City’s traffic towers may be artistically attractive, the Fifth Avenue Association has presented to the city seven artistic bronze towers, to be erected along the famous avenue.
The first of these, recently unveiled at Forty-Second Street, contains a bronze bell weighing 350 pounds that tolls out the hours to the hurrying crowds below.
All towers along the avenue operate simultaneously, permitting traffic to cross the street for two minutes, then allowing a five-minute interval for travel along the avenue. Colored lights in the top of the tower indicate to drivers and pedestrians the direction of travel at any instant.
Contractors Build Freak Test House
TO DETERMINE the feasibility and artistic effect of various materials for a group of new college buildings, a test building using many different materials was erected at Principia College, Elsah, Ill From the results gleaned from the novel experiment, the combination and types of material to be used in the construction of the main buildings was determined.
The small test building was constructed of stone, brick, cast concrete, and timber in brick and concrete. One side of the roof was made of concrete covered with slate, while the opposite side was plain concrete.
Oven Toaster
Old-fashioned, oven-flavored, buttered toast for breakfast takes only two minutes with this new Munsey toaster that also bakes frozen waffles, warms coffee cake, toasts cheese sandwiches and browns rolls. Made of lightweight aluminum with electric coils as its heating element, the toaster comes with a pull-out tray on which you can toast four slices of bread at once. It’s fine for English muffins and chunky Italian bread and you have no problem putting in or taking out such items as you often do with pop-up toasters.
DON’T LET THOSE “DIFFICULT DAYS” COME BETWEEN YOU
Get quick, safe, long-lasting relief from cramps, headache, backache due to functional menstrual distress with CHI-CHES-TERS. They act FAST. In clinical tests, noted physicians report 8 out of 10 women obtained marked relief—often after first dose. Get the 50c Purse Pak at your druggist. Economy sizes at $1.15 and $2.25. Will mail direct if druggist does not stock. Read the rest of this entry »
Doodler’s Paradise
THIS telephone booth, in West Orange, N. J., is made especially for doodlers. Its walls are lined with blackboards on which the person telephoning can make weird signs to his heart’s content, jot down telephone numbers, and generally enjoy himself at the fine art of “doodling.”
From Rubber Tree to Tennis Balls
NEXT time you drive a well-placed tennis shot just out of reach of your opponent’s racket, give some of the credit to the expert craftsmen who made the ball. How men and machines can turn out an endless stream of the white spheres, each an exact match for its predecessor in weight, balance, and liveliness, is shown in the unusual series of views reproduced on this page. Read the rest of this entry »
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