NEWEST GAME-”SMASH”
SMASH! Into the sturdy, collapsible plywood backstop goes the tough little polyethylene ball. How it returns is anybody’s guess until you’ve learned how to play the angles against an opponent’s weaknesses. Big thing about this new paddle game is that it’s fun from the beginning, can develop great skill and condition in the player and uses a space only 9 by 12 feet in your garage, cellar, porch or driveway. Schools, Y’s and youth clubs are using it and Aussie tennis stars showed it off at Olympic Village, Melbourne.

Keaton’s Kontraptions

BUSTER KEATON claims he’s an inventor. Yes, and the former dead-pan comedian, now gag man, insists his devices are a boon to mankind. Hm!

Enter the Keaton M-G-M office and the first thing you see is an elaborate contraption completely covering a four by six table. “That,” says Buster proudly, “is my walnut cracker!” He pushes a button. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW in SCIENCE

Real One-Armed Bandit was hand carved by Sundance Cravat of Reno to raise money for a Shrine fund. Like its less worthy brethren, this slot machine took in much more than it paid out.

Pedestrian Glasses are equipped with a rear-view mirror for spotting lady and Sunday drivers. Inventor Emil Meyer showed them at Munich’s Inventor Fair, insists they are no gag.
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105 M.P.H. Streamlined Auto Built in Home Workshop, Uses Ford Parts

EXTREMELY unique in design, but highly serviceable withal, is a new home-built auto which an English mechanic recently completed after five years of labor in his workshop.

Power is obtained from two Austin 7 h.p. engines placed transversely in the frame behind the back rest. These engines were tuned up till they could do 5,000 r.p.m., permitting a speed of 100 to 105 m.p.h., thanks to the efficient streamlining.
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Rubber from the SUN – and Power Too!

Amazing experiments conducted on the American desert point the way toward the day when the sun will be the universal source of power for industry—and also the manufacturing source of rubber, nitrates, and other organic compounds. This authentic article explains how such results were achieved, and describes probable future developments.
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Personology—Science of Success

Bob Whiteside, Personologisf, is startling the scientific world with an amazing new system for determining a person’s aptitudes by his physical appearance.

By Lee Edson

THE man and woman standing in front of the studio audience at a recent San Francisco radio show were plainly skeptical. And so was the audience itself.

They stared at ex-newspaperman Bob Whiteside with a show-me attitude that for a lesser person might have been disconcerting. But Whiteside, who was on the program to demonstrate what he could reveal about a person merely by looking at him, was used to skepticism. He looked his subjects over carefully. He had never seen them before and there was little about them that could distinguish them from thousands of others. Read the rest of this entry »

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William Gray’s Pay Telephone

By Alfred Lief

THE young wife of a machinist in Hartford, Conn., fell critically ill. The year was 1888. There were few telephones in town and William Gray had to call a doctor. He ran to a nearby factory and asked permission to use their phone. The manager said no; it was not for public use. But his pleading won consent, the doctor arrived in time and Mrs. Gray survived.
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Let’s Use Helicopter Cavalry

Swooping in suddenly, helitroopers on powerful “sky horses” could wreak havoc with enemy troops.

By Frank Tinsley

SCATTERED along the western slope of the Asiatic coastal range, the copter troopers and their mounts cluster in little groups as the rising sun climbs behind them. The jump-off moment is fast approaching. Within minutes, the sun will burst blindingly above them to cover their westward assault.

The first elements of the blitz landing—submarine-borne marines —had hit the enemy coast only three days ago, seized the controlling crests and passes of the coastal hills in bloody fighting, well covered by massive flights of water-borne jet fighters. Read the rest of this entry »

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BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY.

The BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY is the WORLD’S DEADLIEST FIGHTING ORGANIZATION which has included in its closed membership the top fighting experts of the DREADED CHINESE TONG SOCIETY – the oriental, and more vicious counterpart of the Mafia. Read the rest of this entry »

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10,000,000 UFO witnesses can’t be wrong!

By Otto O. Binder

A GALLUP POLL discloses the astonishing fact that 5 million Americans claim to have seen a UFO at one time or another since 1947. Even if 80 per cent of these so-called sightings can be proved to be of such ordinary objects as balloons, high-flying aircraft, birds, stars, etc., that leaves 1 million unsatisfied witnesses. In America alone!

But UFOs also have been reported from more than 70 other countries and the estimated grand total of living witnesses for this little orb called Earth exceeds 10 million. Ten million men, women and children who have seen something out of the ordinary in the sky!
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Easy Parking With SIDE-STEERING Car

FORDS have been forced to do strange things in the past, but the honors for odd performances to date go to a machine, built by a Pontiac, Mich., mechanic, which can move sideways at an angle of 65 degrees, and thus make parking an extremely simple matter.

As demonstrated in the photo above, the machine has each of its wheels mounted on a steering hub, so that a turn of the steering mechanism operates all four wheels.