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...blue). These color impulses are broadcast, picked up by a television receiver circuit, which sets .off three electronic "guns" (one for each color) inside the picture tube. They project the picture on the face of the tube so fast (1,800 times a minute) that the three color pictures blend into a single all-color one. * Reginald Fessenden had made such a broadcast in 1906, when wireless operators at sea were startled to pick up the unearthly sounds...
...Place in the Country. He has won his place with a blend of "the fan approach," and a scholar's serious interest in the fine points of the game. His delivery is warmly enthusiastic without drifting into hysteria; his Southern accent is mild, not wild. Most important, he still adores baseball and never expects to tire of it. "Baseball," he explains, "is a vicarious thrill. I get to play all ten positions...
General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...
...suits should be dry-cleaned to prevent the lining from wrinkling, though most ordinary spots can be washed off with soap & water.) Suitmaker Hart Schaffner & Marx is also using Dacron in 3,500 summer-weight suits to go on sale in 75 stores for $79.50. These suits are a blend of 55% Dacron and 45% wool. Hart Schaffner & Marx says it added the wool because all Dacron builds up a charge of static electricity during dry weather, clings to the skin. Du Pont has been working on this, has made a lot of progress in solving...
What worries Author Blanshard is "the Roman Catholic church-state, a unique blend of personal faith, human compassion, clerical exploitation, and submissive ignorance." He is not likely to convince anybody not already convinced. His claim that the church, in its long history, has often stood with undemocratic factions throughout the world is something too well documented for Catholics to deny. But Catholics can also remind Author Blanshard that Catholicism is to them a religion and not a political system; in all good conscience, they can be as good democrats as he is. Above all, in the embattled world...