Word: colton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those in the U.S. who had a hand in its development were: a Navy quartet. of physicists and radio hams-Albert H. Taylor, Leo C. Young, Robert M. Page and Louis A. Gebhard-who pioneered radar in the '205 and '303; the Signal Corps' Colonel Roger Colton (now an A.A.F. major general), whose laboratory staff at Fort Monmouth designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric...
Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
Died. Blanche Colton Williams, 65, portly head of Hunter College's English department, editor of the O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories from 1919 to 1932; in Jackson, Miss...
Lieutenant Colton G. Morris, UNSR, will tell his eye-witness account of how blood plasma saved the lives of many of the U.S.S. Helena's crew, when he broadcasts over the Crimson Network tomorrow at 9:15 o'clock...
Domestic Scene. In Chicago, Colton Ankebrant, testifying in a reckless-driving case ten days after a car had crashed into his house, replied to the judge's query on the car's whereabouts: "Oh, it's still in the parlor. But it doesn't bother us much...