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Venusian Romance. As far as a layman is concerned, the conversation during the field trials, as well as during everyday dial twirling, is pure Venusian. but the hams call it "Q" signals. Examples: QXR for "stand by for a minute"; QTH for "where do you live?" Curiously enough, this kind of talk can bring romance. Typical is the case of Florence Majerus of Lewistown, Mont., who set up the first QSO (direct communication) between a YL (young lady) friend. Jean Bustard, and Max Stout, a radio officer in the merchant marine. Transmission was FB (fine business), and each was soon...
...Class of 1936 are standouts. The superb acquisitions of men like Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., David Rockefeller and Gordon Palmer, have the scope and excellence of first-rate museum pieces. These conoisseurs have bought wisely, but much more importantly, they have bought with a flair. The safe, the everyday, has little interest for them. They are out for the most important and the most impressive paintings they can find. Today, when art collection has become so widespread a form of investment, the private collector is generally notable for his caution, his collections for their dullness. But many members of the 25th...
Nevertheless, all three are accepted categorical stereotypes which have been transferred from the quiet and naive, visually impressionable high school mind to the dinner table conversations in the Union and Houses. They are everyday terms used throughout the College to describe members of the undergraduate body...
Coach Norm Shepard will settle very quickly for two normal, everyday, victories--by one run if necessary--when his varsity baseball team follows up Wednesday's 26-2 win over Brandeis with games against Army today at West Point and Brown tomorrow in Providence...
Whoever writes the reviews on television doesn't know what he is talking about. I watch television to be entertained and to relax my mind from the everyday grind, and as such I do not like, and will not watch, any program that tries to delve into racial or religious or any other turmoil of the day. And it just makes me boil when some joker implies that people are jerks because they don't demand symphonies or opera or some other kind of high-toned programs...