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...last week Judge Cutler, in high dudgeon, found Western Union guilty of contempt. Said he: "The company, in its desire to get revenue, has neglected to make rules governing messages of this nature to the courts. It is just as responsible to the libel laws as a newspaper." Deaf to Western Union's plea that as a common carrier it is obliged by law to send messages "without discrimination"* and that in any case it had not published the telegrams, he fined the company...
...Fetish. Deaf to the hoots of his advertising representatives. Publisher Cowles resolved to give out no circulation figures whatever until the Register had 25,000. Then & there he adopted a publishing formula which was to make him rich: He made Circulation a fetish. Hiring & firing one circulation manager after another, he finally took over the job himself. He found subscription accounts two, three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them...
...using the machine, the deaf person talks into a microphone and the sounds of his voice are changed into electrical energy. This energy is then converted into impulses which can be measured in terms of "pitch...
...deaf person can watch the fluctuations of his voice indicated by the pointer of the instrument which registers the impulses immediately. Frequencies from zero to 16,000 cycles per second can be recorded, while the range of the human ear is from 20 cycles up to a high squeak of about 16,000 cycles per second...
...turns again & again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively in a loft, a hut in a hayfield, a railway locomotive; how still in hiding, he began a theoretical work on the State just as the revolution approached its climax...