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...lives a life of almost ascetic simplicity, smokes the cheapest cigarets; lives in a quiet eight-room apartment decorated with old porcelain, with crystal and with Renaissance, 19th Century French and Smigly-Rydz oils; never wears more than one medal; rides early each morning; likes to stay at home with his charming, quiet wife, who does her own cooking and thinks the wives of Messrs. Beck and Moscicki are chronic climbers...
...making radio monopoly, Polskie Radio, in which the Government has a 40% share, Poland is not a radio-minded country. Of the estimated 1,000,000-odd-listeners to the eight-station network headed by Warsaw's SPI, perhaps one-fourth still get what they can on ancient crystal sets. Last week Polskie Radio talked bravely on, reported border incidents and the repulsing of Nazi sorties by air, played stirring martial airs between bulletins...
Last year Professor Armstrong built himself a 400-ft. tower on the Hudson River Palisades at Alpine, N. J.. began sending out experimental frequency-modulated programs. In a few experimental receivers they came in crystal clear, in every kind of weather. From the tower at Alpine the reception range is about 100 miles...
Lame, lank, atrabilious Charles Grey Grey is a 32nd generation Northumberlander. He studied engineering at London's Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Never more than a competent draftsman, he took to peddling bicycles, then advertising for a motoring journal, The Autocar. The Autocar's, editors presently discovered in Grey a clever pen, converted him into a reporter, in 1908 gave him his first big assignment: a Paris air show. When Cub Grey pointed out that he spoke no French his editor tut-tutted: "At least you won't be misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever...
More attractive, although on the pretty-pretty side, are the girls in Living Magazine Covers. Eye-catching are: 1) Rosita Royce's dance with live doves at the Crystal Palace, which ends in purple shadows and a lightning-quick strip; 2) the Crystal Lassies show, where, one at a time, semi-nude girls do semi-classical dances in a domelike hall of mirrors which reflects their images a thousand times over & over...