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...wasn't long before W1AF was contacting "hams" all over the world, and receiving in return countless station call cards. These cards, sent by each "ham" with his station call and other pertinent information printed on it, arrived from Portugal, Germany, Haiti, Tripoli, Italy, France, England, South Africa, the Aleutions, and every state in the Union. The cards are still arriving daily, sometimes as many as six in one mail delivery...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: New Equipment Helps Wireless Club Communicate With Six Continents | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

Many prospective club members knew little about such fundamentals as code and machine operation. Because of this, the 17 licensed members decided to teach anyone who was interested enough to pay the $2 membership fee everything a "ham" has to know. This instruction program will be expanded next year...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: New Equipment Helps Wireless Club Communicate With Six Continents | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...when a Carter right dumped Williams to the canvas, the championship was on its way, too. After a fagged and beaten Ike had hit the canvas for the fourth time in Round 14, the fight was stopped. Little Jimmy Carter, who had seemed doomed to the life of a ham-&-egger, went home to his third-floor Harlem walkup to tell his wife and two-year-old son how, in his first fight in the Garden, he had become lightweight champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: End of a Champion | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...covers of your April 30 issue portray ham on the front as well as ham on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/15/1951 | See Source »

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