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Craig declared that his system would get rid of television's major headaches at one blow: it would broadcast television programs as far as radio broadcasts (instead of only to the horizon); it would send clear pictures of outdoor or dimly lit scenes (high-powered illumination would no longer be required); it would use the same wave lengths as radio (instead of being limited to high frequencies). It would also, Craig said, make television much cheaper...
Craig went on to explain that he had achieved all this by getting rid of the present "scanning" principle of television cameras. In translating an image into electrical impulses for broadcasting, the usual television camera "scans" the whole image in no fewer than 240,000 separate impressions. These are recorded separately, in series, all within the space of a 30th of a second. This requires intense lighting, considerable power, and such high speed in transmission that a television broadcast must use a wide band of wave frequencies, room for which can be found only in the high-frequency wave lengths...
Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives...
George Bernard Shaw gave an old-fashioned Shavian interview to a London reporter who asked him, among other things: 1) How can women rid themselves of their many current handicaps? 2) What is the cause of the Briton's patronizing attitude toward women? 3) Should the housewife have an economic status? Shaw's answers: 1) "They are not handicapped. . . . It is men who are handicapped now." 2) "It doesn't exist. Men are abjectly afraid of women, not without reason." 3) "She has it. The country is run by women...
...Sunday last spring while Moss Hart was having a drink in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, a young Air Forces lieutenant breezed over to his table, introduced himself, said: "Would you like to do a play about the Air Forces?" "Certainly," answered Hart, as the readiest way of getting rid of him. But ten days later Hart was in Washington, face to face with General H. H. Arnold. Hart stated his terms: "I must be boss." Said Arnold: "Okay, young...