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...Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. "A robbery, eh? Anything stolen?" To this slyly astute question, posed by the dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades...
...summer circuit, Kenton keeps his men in a state of near exhaustion that, strangely, seems to add to their cohesion and musical esprit. To the usual jazzed-up dissonances that are his musical trademark, Kenton this year has added the sound of the mellophonium, a kind of straightened French horn that he developed to fill in a range of sound that usually remains unexploited-somewhere between the trumpet and the trombone. Whipped by the rhythm section's artfully lagging beat, the buttery mellophonium sound satisfies the taste of as many as 5,000 a night. As a result...
...ground-based horn and its complicated collection of equipment has unlimited electricity available, but Telstar's operating power comes from its solar cells, which generate only 15 watts-not enough to keep all its apparatus operating all the time. As a result, the satellite's command obeying system, which throws electronic switches in response to coded signals from the earth, is one of its most important features. When circuits are not needed, they can be turned off to conserve power and to give the solar cells a chance to recharge Telstar's storage battery...
...come in the next minute. They are orders to the satellite to start transmission." After another pause, Brown said deliberately: "'A' command sent, 'A' command O.K. 'B' command sent, 'B' command O.K. We're beginning to track it. The large horn has it. Signals are entering the horn...
Named executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, fifth-ranked editorial post on the undergraduate daily, was horn-rimmed Anthony Hiss, 20, a history and lit major who is aiming for Harvard Law School after his graduation next June. An earlier Harvard Law man (class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that...