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...reason for the resurgence of syphilis is that wide publicity for quickie cures has made potential victims careless. Also, said New York University's Dx. Charles R. Rein, federal and state funds for detecting and treating the disease have been cut back too fast. Some state laboratories are no longer making the wholesale, routine blood tests that they used to make. The result is that many early cases are being missed, and will be neglected until they do perhaps lasting damage...
Last Saturday midnight control of all but a few kilowatts of U.S. short-wave (DX) broadcasting passed quietly out of private hands. Six of the seven owners* of the 14 U.S. transmitters now feeding news and the U.S. point of view to foreign ears stepped out as owner-managers, became simply landlords. The seventh, World Wide's WRUL in Boston, balked. It wanted further assurance that it would not have to carry any "boilerplate" programs which might dissolve the station's already large European audiences...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...
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