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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis-born T. S. Eliot, now a British subject and Britain's most influential living poet, got a book for his 60th birthday. Specially published, it contained nosegays of one sort & another from 48 of Eliot's contemporaries in the arts. Sample posy from W. H. Auden...
...only one who wasn't fretting last week was modest Dorothy Dobson. She had always dreamed of being a famous singer-and this was fame of a sort. She only wished her three notes had been better. "They were," said she, "the tiniest bit sharp...
...Motley combined the nebulizer with a "cycling valve"-a sort of artificial breathing apparatus developed for the Air Force. With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics. The air passes through the nebulizer, picking up the drug mist. When the lungs are full, the valve goes into reverse and empties the stiffened lungs more thoroughly than the victim's breathing muscles...
During the rest period, engineers will confer with FCC on some sort of new formula for giving the public better TV service. An example of the kind of subject to be discussed: the spacing of TV stations, which engineers are not yet agreed on. Some think that stations should be widely separated, others that they can be packed together like sardines without interfering with one another...
This week the Air Force released a rather sketchy description of a sort of hybrid of the old & new: Pratt & Whitney's Wasp Major-VDT. Basically, it is the 28-cylinder, 3,500-h.p. Wasp Major used in the Air Force's B50 bombers. Combined with a "variable discharge" turbosupercharger manufactured by General Electric Co., it turns into a new engine with greatly increased power and flexibility...