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Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 elected the following officers last night: President, Robert W. Snyder '38; Vice-President, Eric T. Clarke '38; Secretary, Seymour Bunshaft '39; Treasurer, Mc Crae H. Cobb '39. Chester W. Williams 1G was appointed assistant conductor. The following new members were elected: Roy J. Beneechi '37, Mc Crae H. Cobb...
...long-suffering public hopes that Admiral Byrd WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! He need never, on any occasion, be mistaken for a bellhop, a street car conductor or train caller [TIME, Jan. 25]. He can avoid such embarrassing moments by merely following the precedent set for him by those men whose stripes or stars or whatnots are the result of long and arduous service: No officer on the retired list wears a uniform, any time, any where. His uniform automatically retires with his active status. No officer on the active list wears a uniform while traveling. In fact, he never...
Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged...
...music seemed at an end last April when little old Arturo Toscanini left the New York Philharmonic and went home to Italy (TIME, May 11). The most beloved conductor living, he had worked with the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, taught it to play as perfectly as any orchestra in the world. But, at 69, Toscanini found continuous performances too great a strain. Thereafter he planned to conduct only occasionally, only in Europe...