Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telephone TV. A "picturephone" that conveys both the voice and picture of a caller was announced by Bell Telephone Laboratories. A mlniature TV camera flashes a head-and-shoulders picture of the caller over an ordinary telephone wire to a small screen at the other end of the line. The picture, composed of 2,400 dots changes every two seconds (the standard TV picture changes 30 times a second) can be cut off or on by flicking a switch. Bell scientists, who have watched and listened to each other on a hookup between New York and Los Angeles, refuse...
...phone capacity. Service will be inaugurated sometime this fall and by conservative A. T. & T. estimate should be at full capacity within two years at the standard rate of $12 per three-minute New York-London call. With no atmospherics to throw it off, the submarine phone cable is bell-clear, is expected to be working at all times. Last week grey, ramrod-straight Monarch Captain James P. F. Betson, who kept in phone contact with shore technicians over the cable even as he was paying it out. gave it a glowing testimonial: "There is no background noise...
...brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...
...Chicago, and there were plenty of pending problems ranging all the way from Suez to the 1958 budget. But problems or no, President Eisenhower was acting like a championship fighter waiting impatiently in his dressing room for an end to the political preliminaries and the main event bell...
...Time Loser. In Chicago, after Paul E. Bell placed a bet, the bookie identified himself as a detective and the horse, So Bet Me, fell dead in the race...