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While the son of the tenth President was thus attending at the altar, the sons of the 30th President, John and Calvin Coolidge, were gathering their tennis rackets and radio sets together in preparation of departure for Mercersburg, Pa., the seat of learning where Mercersburg Academy is situated...
...radio fans of the Island Empire " listened in " on their radio sets to a polysyllabic discourse on " why inexhaustible light and power can never be provided by the harnessed energy of the elusive atom." Great was the uproar next day from thousands of radioites. " Why did you do it ?" the director of the broadcasting programs was asked. His answer was as abstruse as the subject that prompted the question. Henceforth the radio fans are eager to receive jazz. (For a scientific account of this speech, see page...
Britain's radio Babbitts, unappreciative of learned discourse...
With a picked crew of six men, MacMillan sailed from Maine July 16, completely equipped for radio communication with a syndicate of newspapers through the American Radio Relay League. Two amateur stations last week picked up a message giving the latitude of the Bowdoin as 78° 30' N., which indicates the expedition has reached Etah, on the north-west coast of Greenland, the point of departure of many pole dashes, 2,300 miles north of Boston...
...MacMillan's object is not a quest of the Pole, but a study of climatic and magnetic conditions in the Arctic region. The influence of the aurora borealis on radio will be observed. The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat ( TIME, May 5) and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age. MacMillan hopes to find definite scientific data as to whether a new glaciation may be expected, but most geologists hold that it is too early to make predictions. The last...