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...hedge, Nicky," she cried. "He never could come to the point. He's trying to cover up the fact that he wanted to eavesdrop on the Big Three Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Reber read about the sky waves some ten years ago while he was working as a radio engineer in Wheaton, Ill. To eavesdrop on the stars, he built a radio "telescope" in his backyard. It was mostly a saucer-shaped receiver of sheet metal, 31 ft. in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sky Waves | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...hedge, Nicky," she cried. "He never could come to the point. He's trying to cover up the fact that he wanted to eavesdrop on the Big Three Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...ever tried to do the job "The World and America" does in quite the way this program does it. In a series of 52 broadcasts, it aims to teach U.S. history by letting you eavesdrop on the conversation of two everyday Americans who like the sort of country they live in and want to find out how it got that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...frequent radio lectures on anything from "applied psychoanalysis" to sociology. He knows little about such subjects and speaks in what his detractors call "basic Spanish." But his undulating words have a certain hypnotic effect upon his simpler subjects. Some of them believe that he can make himself invisible and eavesdrop upon their secret, often rebellious thoughts. The President does not sleep well, paces the Palace at night or wanders around the heavily guarded grounds. Many Salvadorans believe that he is haunted by the ghosts of the thousands he has had killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Haunted Theosophist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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