Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with this method is that the bodies dry flat, squashing down to thin, distorted films. Last week Professor (of biophysics) Robley C. Williams of the University of California told of a better method. He puts a film of collodion on a copper disk cooled with liquid air (temp. ~377-6° F.). Then he sprays his microorganisms on the cold film. They freeze solid in a flash. When he pumps the air from around them, their moisture passes directly from ice to vapor, leaving their empty husks in the exact shapes they had at the instant they were frozen...
...addition to its staff: James M. Curley, 77, four-time Boston mayor, sometime Massachusetts governor, congressman and convict (using the mails to defraud). Curley's contract specifies that he may talk about anything during his hour-long program, three times a week, but must not be called a "disk jockey...
...Medford, Mass, last week, the radio giveaway show reached its pinnacle. Mrs. Franklin Hart correctly answered the questions put to her by Disk Jockey Dave Maynard of station WHIL and won-the radio station. As is usually the case on radio giveaways, there are some strings attached. Mrs. Hart wins the station for only one day. She gets none of the station profits but has the privilege of choosing the day's programs and having them broadcast from her own house...
Actress Eva Gabor explained why she had spent $3,600 for new clothes to wear for 30 minutes twice a week on a midnight disk jockey stint for a Manhattan radio station: "You have to look beautiful to sound beautiful...
...Created a batch of new military awards, topped by the "Cape of Good Hope" decoration, a five-sided disk which takes precedence over all other decorations, orders and medals. South African heroes of the two World Wars who won Britain's coveted V.C. (Victoria Cross) at Flanders or El Alamein may still wear their medals, but these are now to be regarded as "foreign" decorations...