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...William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ultrasound Surgery | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Into that cloud may come "a sudden stirring with no forewarning, instantly springing toward God as a spark from a coal." Still higher than the experience of this "sharp dart of longing love" is God's "beam of ghostly light," but of this the author forbears to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mysticism Psychoanalyzed | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

That night 1,200 faithful (at $10 a head) turned up to watch their man blast away at the Eisenhower Administration for lack of initiative in the space war, and to beam out loud and clear that the Democrats stood "ready and willing" to assume the burdens of world leadership. Kennedy even touched on a Midwest sore point-the kind that led Kansas Democrats to favor-Estes Kefauver over Kennedy for Vice President in the 1956 convention: the farm issue: Said Kennedy, who must live down his mildly anti-farm belt record: "I think we are going to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On to the Midwest | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...Paso, somebody reported a "wondrous white craft with forward and aft searchlights, a pair of propellers and a cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Dinner Time | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...buyer, Egmont Sonderling of Oak Park, Ill., is white, and so is its management. With more sponsors than he can crowd into his schedule, even at the rate of one every five minutes, Broadcaster Sonderling plans to keep Memphis' WDIA on the same old lucrative beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Biggest Negro Station | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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