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When the middle nets are pulled up and the area left wide open for infield practice, Fletcher wanders from one base to another, offering pointers. A few familiar faces dot the middle of the infield. At second, regular Tom Cavanaugh is battling it out with small but sure-handed sophomore John Canepa. The double-play combination runs off smoothly when Captain Johnny White steps in at shot to play the uneven dirt floor like a professional...
...Gates is a spur-line railway station in the drab reaches of London's northern suburbs. Into Palace Gates one morning last week panted the little two-coach train which invariably leaves at 10:15 for Seven Sisters, where commuters invariably set down at 10:21 on the dot, transfer to the main line to London's financial district. With a few minutes to spare, Driver Percy Playle and his fireman left the cab for a quick...
Station Foreman George Buckland took a flying leap into the cab, pulled hard on the air brake. The little train slowed down, came to rest just where it should, at the end of the Seven Sisters platform. Time: 10:21 on the dot. Down the snow-covered track from Palace Gates came panting Driver Playle and his fireman. They had made the 2% miles in 16 minutes. At Seven Sisters a lone passenger got in. The little train, once more under human control, pulled out for the return trip to Palace Gates...
...sound of the katydids began on Monday; Washington shrilled with their guesses and contradictions. That day on the dot of 4, small and anonymous-looking in an unpressed grey suit, the Prime Minister of Britain walked into the White House and shook hands with the President. A few minutes later, Clement Attlee and Harry Truman strode down the corridor and into the green-draped Cabinet Room where Franklin Roosevelt had consulted with Winston Churchill in other crisis days...
When the evidence was all in, and the FCCommissioners had taken a long look at CBS's "field sequential," RCA's "dot sequential," and CTI's "line sequential" systems (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949), they issued the First Report...