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Opening the second series of the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures, Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, C.B.E., F.S.A., A.R.I.B.A., Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will deliver tonight his first lecture on the History of Italian Sculpture...
...Eric H. Palmer of Brooklyn liked, talked, tinkered with and wrote about radio for several years. He taught it to Eric H. Palmer Jr., 16, his "strong, straight-shouldered" son. He bought Eric H. Palmer Jr. a transmitting set; helped him get an operator's license (2 ATZ) from the Federal Radio Commission; rejoiced in Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s ambition to become "sparks"* on a steamship...
Last fortnight Eric H. Palmer wrote a letter to the Federal Radio Commission about Eric H. Palmer Jr.: ". . .I do not believe he has seen the sunlight in three months. He transmits all night and goes to sleep at 6 a.m. and sleeps until 4 p.m." Eric H. Palmer Jr. had been dropped from two schools, grown sickly. Eric H. Palmer has forbidden his son to operate his transmitting set; had even crippled the set - to no avail. Eric H. Palmer Jr. continued to tinker and pine. Eric H. Palmer had to ask the Federal Radio Commission to suspend Eric...
...Said Eric H. Palmer Jr.: "This is a huge joke. Father can't have my license revoked...
...last week, to his mingled anger, awe and pride, to the horror of persons who view with alarm the increased supervision of private life by Federal authority, and to the satisfaction of persons who like to think of the U. S. Government as "Uncle Sam," Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s license was suspended for 90 days by the Federal Radio Commission, whose chairman, Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, addressed Eric H. Palmer Jr. as follows...