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...Paris, which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...
...thousands who went out of their way for a glimpse could clearly explain what attracted them. A red-faced working woman, carrying her shopping bag, had the truest answer. "Look at them," she said. "How young and happy and well-bred they are. C'est du baume pour le coeur-it does your heart good...
News telecasts rarely get off the ground: an announcer reads from a script, with downswept eyes, pointing occasionally to a map, a cartoon or a still photograph. A few (notably the NBC Camel-Fox Movietone News and Du Mont's Tele-News) offer first-rate, up-to-the-minute newsreels. But mostly spot news pickups are only a lick & a promise. Exception: such foreseeable events as political rallies where the cameras, being set in place, catch unscheduled incidents. Television looks forward to the summer's forthcoming conventions, which will be carried by 18 stations (LIFE will cover with...
...science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image was becoming clearer...
...Government charged that in 1932 Henkel, one of the world's biggest soapmakers, licensed some of its synthetic detergent patents to Procter & Gamble, Du Pont, and Richards Chemical Co. The royalties were paid to Hyalsol, which was set up, the Government charges, as a U.S. patent-holding company under Marks and Littell...