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...Chile but abandoned because it was too boring (TIME, April 3), would have to be sanctioned by act of Congress. Columbia News Service asked for gallery seats for three Columbia reporters who would take notes like any correspondents and relay the day's doings on the legislative floors via microphone. Hotly to the ramparts leaped Editor & Publisher with an editorial entitled ''The Radio Menace." Excerpt: "Radio broadcasting in this country is not entitled to press privileges because it is not a free institution-it is a government licensed instrument which is susceptible to dictation by any administration...
Speeding from Moscow to Washington last week via Berlin and Paris, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinov said of his coming talks with President Roosevelt about U. S. recognition of the U. S. S. R.: "As far as I am concerned everything could be settled in half an hour...
...Eckener spent the day in Chicago, visited the Fair, received a dinner in his honor at the swank Union League Club where German Ambassador Hans Luther loudly flayed critics of Hitler. Before re turning to Akron to pilot his Graf home to Friedrichshafen via Seville, he had a ride in the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion automobile which Gulf Refining Co. had been driving around Chicago for publicity. Luckily for him, he did not ride at the same time as two of his Graf passengers, Col. William Francis Forbes-Sempill. Master of Sempill, British soldier and flyer; and Charles Dolfuss, attache...
...George R. ("Machine Gun'') Kelly fell into the hands of the police. Wanted in Oklahoma City for the Urschel kidnapping, wanted in Kansas City for murder, wanted in Chicago and St. Paul for robbery and murder, Kelly-a heavyset, black-haired ex-convict who got into crime via bootlegging and who boasts that he can write his name on a wall with machine gun bullets-had been eluding Federal authorities for more than three months. Thanks to an intercepted telegram and the story of a 12-year-old girl, they caught him one dawn last week...
Sound waves are more easily conveyed through some solids, among them human bone, than through air. The devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...