Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrew Hoffman of New Orleans had been told that their seven-month-old twin sons Denny & Kenny were blind, and had been blind from birth. Not giving up hope, the Hoffmans chartered a plane to New York. At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital they heard good news: Denny had "some vision"; Kenny would undergo an operation...
...twelve-inch record can be perpendicular to the grooves at only a few spots. By reducing the number of grooves, Victor has virtually eliminated tracking error. But the total distortion normally created by tracking error is less than the distortion of most amplifiers, so that tracking error is not heard except on the very fine machines. The fault Victor is correcting in its "quality zone" is therefore one few listeners can detect...
Preserved In Oil. A month ago the American Chemical Society (meeting in smog-free San Francisco) heard the results of investigations carried out by the Stanford Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice...
...Heresy!" The ancient cry, heard last week in the corridors of Boston College (enrollment: 6,600), was aimed at the Jesuits who direct Boston College. The cry was raised by three young laymen teachers who protested that the Jesuits were teaching doctrines that were against Roman Catholic tenets. For months the laymen teachers had been growing more & more disturbed at what they regarded as too-tolerant views among the Jesuit members of the faculty...
...Lisa Kirk is the only variety show soubbrette I ever heard who realizes that the vocal chords and not the nasal passages are the proper origins for sounds emanating from female vocalists. If thirty entertaining minutes out of a whole week's effort can be interpreted as a good sign, there still may be hope for radio...