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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For seven weeks wave after wave of mallards and pintails took off like scrambling fighter planes from their summer bases in Canada. Fanning out over four major flyways (see chart), where great precise Vs of wild geese passed intermittently from dawn to dusk, they headed south. It was the heaviest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks Away | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Like disc jockeys the country over, Alan Cummings of Washington's WWDC was snowed under with requests for Mule Train; his listeners could not seem to hear it often enough. Early one morning last week, Cummings struck back: he began playing, one after the other, recordings of Mule Train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whiplash | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

If the disc is properly synchronized with the scanning speed of the tube, one-color "fields" go out over the airwaves and appear one after the other on the face of the receiving "picture" tube. All of them are white, since the "phosphor" (the luminescent substance) on the tube'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Twinkle, Flash & Crawl | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

After his work for Director Reed, Karas had returned to his Vienna café. Last week, with 300,000 records sold and nightclub bands and hurdy-gurdies playing his tunes (Harry Lime Theme, The Café Mozart Waltz), Karas flew back to London for a share of the bravos. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Dither | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

The tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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