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Beyond anthropology the connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...
Agitated telephone calls between London and British diplomatic agents in Saint-Jean-de-Luz were not made clearer by the fact that the captains of three of the stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil...
...procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan in the Vatican, in a voice much clearer and stronger than that of his last radio address, the Pope said...
...both the RCA-Victor and Farnsworth television systems, unquestioned leaders in this science which shows no serious signs yet of becoming an industry, the pictures are electronically scanned from top to bottom in a series of close-packed horizontal lines. The greater the number of lines, the clearer the picture. Last week RCA-Victor announced it was upping its "definition" from 343 lines to 441. This means that 30% clearer images can be had on a screen the same size as before, or that pictures of the same clarity as before can be had on a screen 30% larger...
...when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could be watched. Without voice or closeups the players had to resort to violent pantomime, grimacing, brow puckering, and the frightened clutch at throat or bosom...