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Judging the debate were Justice Edward A. Counihan of the state Supreme Court, Elwood H. Hettrick, dean of the B.U. School of Law, and Nils Y. Wessell, acting president of Tufts college...
...Elwood Kretsinger, professor of speech at the University of Oklahoma, announced that he had invented a device to enable teachers to tell whether their charges are interested in their work or not. He strings wires generating an electromagnetic field to the backs of classroom chairs, connects them to a special paper chart. When pupils yawn and wiggle, their boredom will promptly show up-as waves and jiggles on the chart...
Lieut. General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, one of the Air Force's top tactical experts, retired at 47 without explanation. Rear Admiral Alvin D. Chandler left the Navy at 49 to become president of the College of William & Mary. Air Force Brigadier General Horace A. Shepard, a brilliant aeronautical engineer, had resigned at 38 to take .a better-paying...
Like its sister organization, Radio Free Europe (TIME, July 17, 1950), R.F.A. was founded by a group of private U.S. citizens* who feel that the Voice of America, though effective in its way, is sometimes hampered because of "good & sufficient reasons of national policy." Explains Director John W. Elwood: "Because we nave no Government ties, we can say anything we damn please." For the present, R.F.A.'s transoceanic voice will be limited to 75 minutes of news and interpretation, six days a week...
...Elwood, who concedes that at the moment R.F.A. is little more than a "baby who has just got his rattle," also realizes that very few people in Red-dominated China have receivers to pick up shortwave broadcasts from San Francisco. Eventually, R.F.A. hopes to speak loud and clear from a standard-band transmitter off the China coast-probably in Manila. But that time is at least 18 months and $2,000,000 away...