Word: circuits
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Died. Judge Julian William Mack, 77, pioneer Zionist leader, veteran U.S. Circuit Court jurist (1911-41); in Manhattan. Chairman of the first American Jewish Congress (1918-19), he headed the Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. Under his questioning as a member of World War I's Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors, Alvin York dropped his objections...
Yesterday was a milestone in your correspondent's Cruft career. Some wide-eyed, lab-dazed Ensign who had probably just come from a two hour tussle with a multivibrating circuit, approached the Navy office and with all the confidence of on on the verge of profundity, asked the all time hit parade question--"How many copies of orders do I need to go to Tech...
Later, Boolba developed his own remote control circuit for tuning radios at long distance with push buttons "It's for lazy people," says Boolba, but he has made several large installations, for special purposes. Still, the thought of his unexploited first "lazy man's gadget" rankles him whenever he tunes his own push-button control FM-AM model...
...sidewalk interviews from Times Square ("Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave") recognized the voice of brassy George Braidwood ("The Real") McCoy, radio buttonholer extraordinary (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940). They found out last week that Private McCoy was now playing the six-station American Expeditionary radio circuit in North Africa...
...circuit, operated by the War Department's Special Services Division, began last December with a handmade, low-powered transmitter put together out of old French parts and baling wire. Now the armed forces get 13 hours a day of special recordings from home, news, health tips, and plenty of local talent. WOR-Mutual put the local-talent end of the circuit on the U.S. air by transcription last week, gave the nation its first hearing of G.I. radio at the front...