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...properly directed. A flautist does not blow through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column of air in the flute vibrating. Flute tones are made by this vibrating air column, just as violin tones are made by a vibrating string. Their pitch, similarly, depends upon the length of the air column. If a flautist wants a high note, he shortens his air column by opening one of the flute holes nearest the mouthpiece...
...borrow $35,500,000 from the public-$13,000,000 for Hearst Magazines Inc., $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications, Inc., which included two radio stations, nine dailies and the Sunday-supplement American Weekly. By no means did Mr. Hearst tell all. Although the registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such Hearst interests as King Features, Hearst Metrotone News, Cosmopolitan Productions (cinema). But revealed in some 250 pages of text and tabulations was many a Hearst publishing secret, many a Hearst business oddity...
...TIME, April 5). A rookie team which nosed out the feeble Chicago Blackhawks for third place, the Rangers did not reach maximum efficiency until, when the season was over, they won four games in a row in two preliminary playoff series. Against the Red Wings, the Rangers stretched their string to five, lost the second game, won the third. Red Wing heroes of the last two games in addition to Lewis, onetime Red Wing captain, were Marty Barry, fuse of Detroit's famed "dynamite line," who scored the goal that won the fourth game...
...enough of a novelty to distract baseball addicts' attention from the recruit players who usually make most training-camp news. Most remarkable rookies of the year appeared to be Giant Pitcher Carl Hubbell's young Brother John, who showed promise while the Giants were mysteriously losing a string of early games to semi-pro teams in Cuba; Yankee Outfielder Joe Di Maggio's older Brother Vince who tried out at third base with the Boston Bees; and a 19-year-old St. Louis Cardinal catcher named Arnold ("Mickey") Owen. About Brother Di Maggio one school of thought...
...rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses, has lately bought up and combined Toronto's Globe and Mail & Empire (TIME, Nov. 30). But he admits that newspapers bore him, and no one has yet discovered why he set up his broker, C. George McCullagh, as a bigtime publisher...