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16 THE TV JOURNAL MAY 26 JUNE 1 STAMP CORNER at Dielingen. On April 15 his rocket soared 5,000 feet and landed near the firing point. Great Britain and Australia both experimented with rocket mail in 1934. Australia fired 10 rockets containing mail between Dec. 4, 1934 and May 10, 1937.

Herr Gerhard Zucker a German rocket experimenter fired rockets with mail. in Sussex. His rockets fired on June 6, 1934 merely went 900 yards on one flight and 800 on another. The idea soon spread to The Netherlands, India and Italy in 1934, and by 1935 rocket mail was being carried in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Yugoslavia and the United States: The first U.S. rocket mail flight took place in Sept.

1935 at Holmes Airport in Astoria, Long Island. Two rockets fired The symbol of "built-in" quality SINCE 1947 01 BUILT. armstrong CONSTRUCTION HOMES OF VALUE AND PRESTIGE on Sept. 22 both exploded, one at launching and the other in midair. Spain, and Mexico experi1936 mented and with Cuba rocket followed mail in 1939.

Denmark had a rocket post in 1940. Stephen Smith experimented with rocket mail in India -from 1934 until 1941. He numbered his rockets and gave them unusual names such is Boomerang, Dick Turpin, or Gertrude Collins. On July 24, 1938 he made a faultless flight with his rocket, Rowland Hill that carried 194 cards at Alipore, India. Mr.

Smith's final rocket went taloft on Sept. 26, 1941. Future mail by rockets will likely become as commonplace as airmail is today; time will tell. Gag Bag Tennessee Ernie Ford had just finished a song when Pat Buttram observed: "Ern, you're. just like Elvis Presley the only difference is when they swoon for you it takes them longer to get up." Sam Koffman insists that woman is someone who would charge that another driver ran into her bumper with the side of his car.

Les Lye: If brevity is the soul of wit, the new bikinis are enough to make guy die laughing." Peter Jennings tells about the pretty new steno who said to an office veteran: "I have problem. The efficiency expert has given me the eye. Should look busy or interested?" "Only woman can heal the wounds a man has received from another woman. From which one may deduce that the remedy is worse than the -illness." Reverberations of the tragic Paret-Griffith fight on TV being felt in the British Isles. Reaction is spearheading government: inquiry into violence on British TV screens.

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