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...continue to turn out flawless waxings, using the best materials and employing the latest technique. A recent stride has been the hush-hush releasing of high-frequency recordings done at 14,000 rather than the standard 10,000 kilocycles. At no extra cost, these recordings, so far only a half-dozen in number, feature bell-clear treble and bass tones and bring the overall effect of FM broadcasting to records...
...dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...
...months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden last week, military authorities prescribed "special alertness" for amateur astronomers and laymen. The latter said: "The Russians are getting fresh...
...months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden last week, military authorities prescribed "special alertness" for amateur astronomers and laymen. The Tatter said: "The Russians are getting fresh...
...newsmen aboard the "Big Apple" and the Panamint will witness The Drop from 15 or 20 miles away, will probably not get their best stories until their ships move in close to look at the devastation later. Of the 169 newsmen converging on Bikini, only three reporters and a half-dozen photographers will actually fly over the target when the bomb run is made. But all correspondents had been investigated, shot full of injections, and issued enough instructions for an invasion. Some methodical Navy men had even made every newsman sign a document waiving right to any invention he might...