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...several able newshawks happened to be in Managua last week. Dapper Charles J. V. Murphy, a former New York World man, was there preparing a book on the Marines in Nicaragua. All day long he worked with the rescue squads, writing despatches at night by the light of a flashlight. And less than 76 hours after the earthquake, U. S. newspaper readers and cinemaddicts 2,000 miles away were looking at pictures of the disaster. Specially chartered planes flew films of rival agencies via Havana and Miami to Atlanta whence telephoto machines flashed them on. Picture men boasted: "A record...
Power required was one-half watt, which is just enough to light a flashlight. I. T. & T. reported that the micro waves do not fade, and are not affected by fog, rain or other climatic conditions. The company claims that the wavelengths can be controlled so precisely that 250,000 transmitters could broadcast simultaneously. Thus television, which needs many wavelengths, finds a new tool. I. T. & T. intends to commercialize the apparatus at once-for use on ships, lighthouses, airplanes...
...discovered that brain-fogged Pilot Bert Acosta was stubbornly steering a course "back to America" after they had reached the coast of France. Biographer Charles J. V. Murphy (Struggle: The Life of Commander Byrd) delicately pictures Acosta collapsing of his own accord, while Byrd stands reluctantly brandishing a flashlight as a bludgeon...
...Lewis speech Mr. & Mrs. Lewis woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first...