Word: antennaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, antenna-mustached "Nuclear Mystic" Salvador Dali, who is as artless about his publicity as he is about his surrealist painting, made his way back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort...
...radio sextant, according to Radio-Astronomer Fred Haddock of NRL, is a dish-shaped antenna only three feet in diameter. When the receiver is switched on, it readily picks up the radio waves that come from the sun, and automatically turns to a point in the sun's direction. Then it "locks on," tracking the sun as long as it is above the horizon. The ship's navigator can find his position just as if he had an assistant watching the sun through an ordinary optical sextant. No cloudy weather gets in the way of the radio sextant...
...course, is not around at night, but Haddock believes that mariners may eventually be able to steer by the mysterious "radio stars" that shine only in radio frequencies (TIME, June 21). Their waves are much weaker than the sun's, so a bigger antenna will probably be necessary. If navigation equipment can, indeed, be devised to track the radio stars, a ship will never again need be lost in a stormy night...
...demonstrated a new method for giving freedom of movement to TV singers. Soprano Joan Diener, instead of being forced to stand near a microphone boom in order to be heard, was able to move at will in a TV studio by means of a tiny concealed microphone, transmitter and antenna. The antenna went around her waist as a belt, the transmitter was attached invisibly to her back, and the mike was hidden in her bodice. Total weight of the equipment...
Silent Speaker. Headphones for small-fry television fans have been developed by the Hoffman Radio Corp. Tricked out with rubber earpieces and a brightly colored plastic "antenna," the phones can be attached to the family television set so that parents can cut off the loudspeaker, have quiet while the children watch TV. Price: about...