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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Before the use of direct wires, the Crimson Network tried to transmit by a little experiment of its own--the heating pipes which run under all college buildings. But trials of four weeks last Spring proved that the system was inconsistent. One radio could receive clearly while a set next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Network Gets Ready For Ambitious Fall Program | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

From that sounding board Quezon began to talk. He clashed with U. S. Governors General over prerogatives. Once he cried: "I would rather live under a government run like hell by Filipinos than one run like heaven by Americans." His feud with Governor General Leonard Wood was said to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Prelude to Dictatorship? | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Brilliant Physicist Ira Maximilian Freeman, who took his University of Chicago Ph.D. in 1928 when only 22, spends most of his time on abstruse equations of quantum theory. But Dr. Freeman is also a teacher (at Central College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Kitchen Physics | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Scheduled for a tour of U. S. museums, Producer Wanger's experiment in cultural publicity had by last week got so much attention for The Long Voyage Home that he counted his $50,000 well spent. Meanwhile another Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was nosing around picture galleries, wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: High-Brow Publicity | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

It hired a real live artist, jittery Catalonian Surrealist Salvador Dali, to do his stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art for Window-shoppers | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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