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...patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver. The image was becoming clearer...
...Carter Professor, Fuller will accupy the chair once hold by ex-Dean Roscoe Pound, who is currently in China codifying Chinese law. In the Byrne Professorship, Katz succeeds Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and former Law School Dean James M. Landis...
Mysteriously spirited to Cambridge sometime last week, over 50 copies of the latest Yale Record are selling twice as fast as the most recent Lampoon over the counter of Felix' Massachusetts Avenue shop...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...
...Bring out whatever scriptures you have got," commanded Felix, after his men had collected all the evidence they could find. A subdeacon brought only one large book, explaining that the lectors kept the rest. Felix . . . said to them: "Identify the lectors." They said: "We do not know where they are." Felix said to them: ". . . Tell us their names." [The sub-deacons'] said: "We are not informers. Here we stand. Command us to be executed." Felix said: "Put them under arrest...