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Your David Sarnoff July 23 article was terrific. The cover itself was close to being a masterpiece. While being ostensibly a picture of General Sarnoff on a background of RCA 45 r.p.m. multicolored records (the "5-inch record with the 6-inch hole," as it was first laughingly referred to), it was, to a radio engineer, a greatly enlarged artist's representation of the face of one type of RCA color television picture tube. This tube has red, blue and green dots in a mosaic pattern similar to Artist Chaliapin...
...explored before. They hauled up 17 sea anemones, 61 sea cucumbers, two mollusks and one crustacean. All were comparatively fragile creatures, but they did not seem to mind living in darkness and cold more than six miles down, where the water pressure is more than seven tons a square inch...
...m.p.h., with minor adjustments is expected to do 150 m.p.h. The 10-to-1-compression engine runs on a mixture of alcohol and premium gasoline. Built of light aluminum and magnesium alloys, Le Sabre weighs 4,000 Ibs., less than many standard U.S. convertibles. Even though its 115-inch wheelbase is the same length as a Chevrolet's, Le Sabre rides like a Cadillac...
...beautifully groomed blonde leaned back and looked at us. "That row of cigars?" She waved a half-inch long fingernail. "There's two hundred to two-fifty of them right here!" she stated. We looked again. A dozen rows contained nothing but overweight middle-aged men, two-thirds of them smoking cigars and half of them wearing straw hats...
...down a 15-inch-gauge, 500-yard track scooted two not-too-reasonable facsimiles of the Emett trains (rechristened "Far Tottering and Oyster Creek"), past weird scenery erected along the line: flat-footed cows, crooked lampposts hung with lobster pots. One train had a candy-striped engine with a balloon-shaped boiler and an elegant, winged smokestack; the other had spidery wheels, a teapot boiler and potted pink geraniums on top. Midgets dressed up as policemen were hired the first week to direct the delighted crowds which flocked about Britain's own Toonerville Trolley...