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...many years Cavendish has conducted research on the ionosphere (radio mirror surrounding Earth) by means of reflected radio signals. This work is in charge of Edward V. Appleton. generally considered the world's No. 1 authority on the ionosphere, who first discovered that the radio mirror consists of two or more shifting layers...
...world's biggest tabloid, Manhattan's daily News. This week blue-eyed Inez Robb, chic and peppy at 36 despite her greying hair, started on a brand new job as "roving reporter," covering U. S. and international high life for the rival New York Mirror and more than 100 other papers lined up by King Features Syndicate. First assignment : to survey the prospects for socialite Manhattan's winter "season." With the new job went a new by-line (her real name) and a whopping jump in pay (from about $175 a week...
...tabloid zip, Connolly turned it over to onetime Herex Managing Editor Walter Howey, immortalized as the prototype of all man-eating managing editors by Playwrights Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in The Front Page. Lately on Hearst's executive staff, Howey had supervised the tabloid New York Mirror and the Boston Record. There are now 54 tabloids, of varying degrees of importance, on sale daily...
...arguments having been exhausted at the demurrer hearings, the trial last week was a mere formality. The Times-Mirror Co., Publisher Chandler and Managing Editor L. D. Hotchkiss were found guilty of contempt, fined a total of $1,050. Attorney Cosgrove, preparing an appeal, warned: "If the decision. . . is sustained, freedom of the press as it is known and as it has been practiced by the journals of the nation is gone forever...
...building improvements, students asked for air-conditioning in New Lecture Hall and Widener Library, "at least one long mirror in Matthews", a telephone system, ironing facilities, screens, common rooms, and outdoor seats in the Yards...