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PEOPLE!
SCIENCE TRENDS:
„I MOST CESTIAINLY DO, THEY KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN (THEY USED FITOMIC, BOMBOS ***
by HODGES
ELSE WHY DID THEY INSIST ON YOUR TAKING, A RAINCOAT WITH THE DEMOB SUIT!
By A. L. BLAKESLEE
They'll Talk Themselves Into The Frying Pan
ore
Some fish and other nolay tenants used to mexaro water depth and Intensified interest in fish noises. The it drags itself through sand, for sound of the sea may talk themselves into map the ocean bottom by sending out racket rulsed by some forms of carries Intensely through water. The the frying PAN.
or marine life often posed problems in le puffer fish apparently_maken sound vibrations which bounce
Bound gringing as it feeds, Dr Breder Numerous Icinda of. Ash and echo back. Since the speed of sound sound detection work during the wor
sald, for puffers immediately
other marine life make noises, varying in water is known-4,800 feet per and caused false reports of sub-warm around when one linde food. from clicks to grunts and counds like second-the depth of water can be marines, exploding mines or other | Its table manners may give it away. Porpoises have a wide vocal range, the beating of tom-toms. Some of determined by how long it takes the dangers.
and their sounds
be heard can these are very loud.
sound to travel from ship to bottom
Considerable varieties of fish have through nquartum gloss. The tiny under way to, and and bacle. The Instrument records voices, says Dr CM. Breder, chair- sca Tesis
horse makes a faint clicking used the depth automatically.
man and curator of the. Department) sound.. whether these sounds con be
in of Fishes of the American Museum Fishermen use the instrument to catch fish, said engineers of the
of Natural History. Submarine Signal Coy, of Boston. locate good fishing grounds, such as The problem principally is one of the edge of on underwater canyon, record, or to find their way back to the same developing instruments to amplify and follow the noises made spot. The instrument has also ac- by
commercially-valuable schools. tually located swimming schools The fish would give themselves away fish by sound vibrations, and the instrument shows at what depth the by their own "chattering."
Sound already is being used, though school is swimming. in a quite different way, to detect fish. The fathometer has long been
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The Human Volcano
-by-
JAMES AGATE
"The Letters of Alexander Woollcolt," edited by
Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennes- soy.
(Cassell, 12s, Ed.)
,'
of
Underwater warfare and the de- velopment of better sound equipment
The snapping shrimp, about one and a half inches long, makes a click Some, like the croaker and drum- by anapping its pincers together. fish, make noise by yibrating their The noise from thousands or milliona balloon-like or bladders with their of them along shrimp beds can blank muscles. The sound from big schools out other sounds. Because of this, often keeps anchored fishermen the snapping shrimp helped Ameri- awake. It can be heard sometimes can submarines during the war. The shrimp noise could ruin the hearing ashore like low thunder.
for DR enemy round man, and the Other Ash grind their teeth, and submarine could take refuge some make grunting noises. Even going to shrimp beds-Assoclated the silent clam makes a noise when Press.
Children's Corner
Conducted by Uncle Peter
A WANDERLUST STORY
Quite a number of Britain's boys and girls seem to have been bitten by wanderlust recently.
There was Peter Anderson, aged eleven, who flew all by himself the three thousand miles from Britain to spend his holidays with hils "American mother"--the American
ALEXANDER WOOLLC of indy who cared from Dritain to
had more than his share was evacuated
the minor frailties. He was Ametlen carly in the war.
bad-tempered and ill-mannered, Lorna Jean Toggart, aged only and made capital out of his eight, flew across the Atlantic alone But he in the other direction, for she went temper, and manners.
had the compensating qualities to Britain to visit her grandparents. of energy and industry.
A few people liked him very much, though most people disliked him for that boorishness which he cultivated to the point when it became second nature.
Even so everybody respected or at least was aware of, this human volcano continually in eruption and seldom less than sizzling.
Nature gave Woollcott health as rude an everything else about him. From his attack of mumps in 1909 to his breakdown in 1848 brought on by overwork he did not know a day's Illness. He had decided that his body was his servant and not his moster, and he worked that body to
its last ounce.
like Charles Dickens, In this he was who wrote: "Too late to say, put the curb on, and don't rush at hills-the wrong man to say it to.
I have now no relict but in action. I am become? incapable of rest. I am quite con- fident I should rust, break, and die, it I
myself. Much better to
Then there is Cecily Williams. Her story really begins over อ
hundred years ago, when her great- great-grandmother, then a baby, set off with her parents for America. The Journey took three months by boat! In 1940 our modern Cecily, at the age of nine months, travelled to Britain to visit the home of her ancestors-but she travelled by air! The Williams family say that they can vouch that both babies behaved splendidly on their journeys!
Lastly there is Charles Rual, who was a page boy in one of London's big hotels. All his life (he is. fourteen years old) Charles
Rual
dreamed of travelling and seeing far-away lands. A South American shipowner stayed In the Lon- don hotel, heard about Charles' longings, offered him a job in South America. Charles is there now, Wish him luck, won't you?
Rupert and Ninky-12
In two days the cloth donkey is finished and Rupert gazes at it, in delight, Don't you think he has a nice kind face "amilea Mrs. Bear. 'He's a fine donkey." Laughs Mr. Bear, but he doesn't look very brainy, does he? In fact, I think he looks a bit of a nincompoop!
Oo, what a lovely word!" crica Rupert. “I don't now what it means bur i shall call him Ninky, for short. I'll ask Bill to call him Ninky, too, Now for some paper and string. 1 must pack him up."-
ALL RIGHTS RRSKIVED,
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
There are hands in which trump spode sult, there wasn't much choice| drawing is essential, and there are but to rebid. In the other hands in which that is the Hved east of declarer's worries! To-day's deal fell into the second class,
South, dealer.
Then, of course, there was the necessity to keep his end up. to his closest bungalows
Kaufman. Moss Hart, George Charles Laughton, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker-a pretty bunch to hold one's own with. But he suc
at the He met defent ceeded.
woman only, Mrs. hands of one
of whom he Patrick Campbell writes:
זיי
vastly enjoyed a visit from Mrs Pat Campbell recently.
She came here to dinner, bringing with her a snow-white Fekinese named Moon- beam. In her little black velvet
addition in vanity bag.
to
her
*****puff, lipstick, handkerchief,
change and letters from Show, she had a chicken bone with which to feed him after his performance in her play."
But did Woollcott really enjoy that visit? I doubt it. I should like know what was the remark him to write of Mrs which prompted Pat: "She is like a sinking ship firing
to
on lis rescuer anywhere and you
Open this book will find it fun. I like the story of the actor who was behind with his room rent and left word that if the landlord came to throw him out and 10 say that he had gone to Cartier's to buy a few diamonds.
NANCY
Poker Face
YOUR MAJESTY..
THERE'S A BIG
'PARTY AT WILLIE HOOGLE'S
HOUSE
Both sides vulnerable. North-South 60 on score.
NORTH
WENT
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& AJ 100
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The Bidding:
South
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North
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Pas
* Spaden Pas
But
PAVE
The king won, and South stemiy West opened the diamond jack,
resisted the impulse to draw trumps. True, he might get out the trumpa at the cost of only two tricks, and might then be able to run all the dia monds (finding a 3-3 break of that suit), but he knew that such perfect breaks were not to be expected.
At the second trick South ruffed a heart. He returned to dummy with a diamond and ruffed another heart, then laid down the diamond queen. West ruffed and, for want of a better play, returned a high heart. South. ruffed and led his inat diamond. West ruffed this ton, while a club was dis- carded from dummy, and led the heart ace..
East could have made things) difficult for declarer by ruffing this trick with an honour, but he couldn't | bo greatly criticised for discarding a club, South did not ruff this time Now, he too discarded a club. when West attempted to exit by South knew that his partner's two-leading the blank king of trumps, heart takeout, Immediately over South politely declined the trick, and West's double, was a warning that West had to lead clubs, establishing a South's king. Thus, the game-going North "hated" spades, but with vold in hearts and a good six-card contract was fulfilled.
I'VE COME TO HONOR YOUR 'PARTY WITH MY
ROYAL PRESENCE
SORRY.. YOU CAN'T..
COME
IN
THE HOUSE IS FULL-- AND YOU KNOW A FULL HOUSE BEATS,
A KING---
HA HA HA
SIDE GLANCES
by
Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 5
1. Where is the
Blarney Stono?
famous
2. Hippoglossus hippoglos- sus is the scientific name for what fish?
3. What weather is indi-
cated by a
steadily
falling barometer?
4. Is Chife on the east or
west coast of South America?
5. Storthing is the name for the parliament of what country?
6. What brass wind Instrument has the lowest pitch in the or- chestra?
the Par-
7. Where is
thenon?
8. How many matches are thoro in standard book?
3
9. Who succeeded Jack Johnson as heavyweight champion of the world? 10. What island is called
the "Black Republic?" 11. Tea is believed to be
native only to what country?
12. When and by whom was uranium discover-
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