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After presenting information theory in a way that should attract none but the credulous ("intuitively"), he rehashes and relabels the audiology of Stevens and Davis, date 1938. Psychophysics has advanced since then. The translator has inserted one wistful reference to the sone and mel scales of loudness and pitch, but that is no substitute for the complete reworking need. In the entire discussion of the sonic message, the "information theory" so painfully presented before plays no practical role...
When New York Customs men put the arm on twelve questionable books mailed from France (sample titles: Sodom, Lust, Busy Bodies') and kept them impounded for five months, the importer, one Mel Friedman, decided to fight back. "Having concluded that the Government suppressed the books for an unlawfully protracted time" without initiating any legal proceeding, said Frankel, it was only proper that they be released-"even though we go on the assumption that the books are indeed obscene...
Harvard will have more depth in the field events. Steve Schoonover and Tiger Jon Morse should have a vault battle at over 14 feet, while Chris Pardee and Tiger Mel Branch will be high jumping around 6-8. Charlie Njoku of Harvard should out-jump his Yale competition for third place...
Divorced. Mel Torme, 40, jazz singer; and Arlene Torme, 35; in a double decree granted on grounds of mutual cruelty; after nine years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...MEL ECKLUND Beverly, Mass...