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...electric coils in animals to study nervous responses by remote control. In 1938 Professor Chaffee broke into the news with the development of a new power saving radio broadcasting tube which the New York "Times" heralded as a "triumph of laboratory and mathematical skill over one of the most complex engineering problems of the generation...
...second half of the program was the long and complex Beethoven Septet, consisting of a string quartet with three wind instruments added, which was performed with a perfect balance and dynamics hard to attain in so large a group without a director. I venture to predict that so perfect a program will not be heard in Sanders Theatre until the last of the series on August 29, when Richard Burgin will conduct another small string ensemble...
...against the mob. The script wound up with quotes from the Berlin and Tokyo radio propaganda playing up the riots (". . . the problem of labor and capital cannot be solved by the present rulers of the U.S.A. . . . hundreds of Negroes were sacrificed on the altar of the American white superiority complex...
Geraldine Farrar, soprano emeritus, sent OPA General Manager Chester Bowles a few suggestions from Ridgefield, Conn., where she heads a consumer committee of the local rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little faith in the average merchant's honesty and stop prying into his affairs; cut down on exhortations to the consumer; throw out the "paragraph dictators and their Bourbonesque indifference to the attitude of the general public...
...roses in his garden, aired his Anglophobia, played the island's strategic position, idle warships and hoarded gold against U.S. pressure. Now he refused utterly to deal with the Committee of Liberation. Said Henri Hoppenot: the Admiral was in a "tragic frame of mind . . . suffering from a Messianic complex and retaining a fanatic loyalty to Petain." From Martinique Georges Robert went into exile in U.S. Puerto Rico, under the protection of the U.S. Navy...