Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-hour show takes its name and its animated M.C. from the 1950 Oscar-winning cartoon, Gerald McBoing-Boing, a moppet who cannot speak words but emits "boi-i-i-n-n-g-g-s" and other sound effects. Still mute except for an occasional train whistle, drum roll or dynamite blast, M.C. Gerald devotes six minutes of each program to showing a UPA (United Productions of America) film already seen in theaters, the rest to new material. This week little Gerald ran off UPA's version of Ludwig Bemelmans' picture tale, Madeline, putting his twelve little Parisian...
...Lama, Sera Lama!" At this the monks' hearts leaped, for their leader was indeed the Lama of the Sera Monastery. Other tests were made: the boy unerringly chose from a number of rosaries the one that had been used by the old Dalai Lama, and he selected the drum with which the ruler had summoned his servants...
...John Sutherland Bonnell of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is typical of the new kind of mail he has been getting since he installed "Dial-a-Prayer"-the newest contribution of science to salvation. Each day Dr. Bonnell records a new 30-second message on a magnetic drum, which is played back all day by a special machine.* Each hour an average 800 calls come in on ten trunk lines attached to the machine. The number (Circle 6-4200) is listed under the church's name as "Prayer Telephone," and is circulated on cards...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...
...image which passes in one end will be hopelessly scrambled when it emerges. The only way to unscramble it is to feed it back the way it came through an identical bundle. Since it is possible to produce two identical random bundles by winding the fibers on a drum and cutting the coil in half, the receiver could be equipped with a "decoding" bundle. Linked into a television circuit, says Dr. Kapany, the bundles would provide a code unbreakable by any known cryptographic method...