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...receiving set at the other end has three picture tubes. They are like black & white tubes except that each has on its face a phosphor that glows in a different basic color. Each little impulse (the colored freight cars) arriving over the beam is electronically switched to the properly colored tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter...
...students invaded the weekly "coffee & doughnuts" meeting of the Boosters' Club, got the Boosters to sign for 1,500 tickets there & then. They plastered the town with signs ("Wanna see a college that's really on the beam? Fill the stands on Saturday and watch us back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could...
Next time, around, Autry lets loose with a fairly heterogeneous collection of songs. From his familiar theme, he goes through "Someday," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Room Full of Roses," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky." In the last-named number, the arena is darkened, ultra-violent rays beam down on Gene's fluorescent shirt, and a herd of cattle parades across the floor...
Thanks for your summary of the Protestant-Catholic debate [TIME, Sept. 12] . . . My reaction to the controversy is this: let both Protestants and Catholics see the beam in their own eye. Let both remember: "By their fruits shall ye know them...
...hysteria spread through Massachusetts. Young girls lived in dread of a spectral rape by the devil and of giving birth to a demon child, while young men (and older) were haunted by the "shapes" of comely matrons who at midnight dropped down from a beam and snuggled close. The devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred...