Word: echoeing
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When in doubt, many a Hearstpaper's editor turns to the New York Journal-American, favorite of "The Chief," to get his cues. A handy day-by-day echo of W.R.'s policies and moods, it accurately calls his often devious signals. The tabloid Mirror, its morning cousin, can usually hear the quarterback best, being closest. But last week Hearst's Manhattan running mates got their signals crossed...
...been experimentally limited to the earth and to a thin shell of air around it. Last week, the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced a scientific milestone: on Jan. 10 (and several times since), its radar at Belmar, N.J. had sent a message to the moon and got an answering echo. Man had finally reached beyond his own planet...
...only a modified version of the standard "SCR-271" radar set, operating on its regular, fairly high frequency of 112 megacycles. The key play was in not sending out thousands of "pulses" of radio energy per second, which would not have allowed enough time in between for the moon echo to return; instead, Belmar sent out only one half-second pulse every five seconds...
...once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased disregard of the atomic age and all waiters...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...