Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novelist John P. Marquand's late George Apley, a dedicated Bostonian who liked to watch birds and deplored progress, never had it like this. Beginning last week Boston's bird watchers could get a bulletin on what to look for simply by dialing Kenmore 6-4050. Mrs. Ruth P. Emery, co-editor of Records of New England Birds, asked the telephone company to install an answering machine beside her desk. A recording of the current bulletin, previously made by her, goes over the wire when a call comes in. A tape recorder takes down incoming information...
...swinging-bell ringer," as it is called, will take a few months at most to install, the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" reports. The device will be operated by a motor in the Memorial Church steeple and a mechanical brain in the basement, known as a "program clock," which tells the mechanism when to ring...
Virtually the entire staff of the CRIMSON was hired yesterday to take over publication of the Alumni Bulletin. As a result, the remaining members of the newspaper staff have issued a call to interested freshmen, sophomores, and juniors to help fill the depleted staff...
Caught in a wave of public indignation over the Illegitimate Issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin published last week, most of the editors of the CRIMSON will spend today in jail awaiting trial for disturbing the peace. Tomorrow's CRIMSON will, therefore, not appear. Police have promised the editors a turkey dinner tomorrow and release in time for Friday's edition...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physicist Ralph E. Lapp describes the radioactive aftereffects of the U.S. H-bomb tests in the Pacific. Dr. Lapp figures that a is-megaton H-bomb exploded near the ground will make an area of 4,000 square miles, mostly downwind, so radioactive that all people in it will get a "serious to lethal dose" in the first day alone. If they cannot evacuate, they will get more. Dr. Lapp believes that the explosion of 50 superbombs could blanket the entire northeastern U.S. "in a serious to lethal radioactive...