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...Bell cable first made a name for itself as a television possibility. This led to a hue & cry of Monopoly! when the company asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental pipeline between Manhattan and Philadelphia. The company explained that its primary interest in the cable was for telephone communication, that it had no television projects afoot, but would lease the cable to all reputable television experimenters without favor. The Commission thereupon withdrew its objections and installation of the Manhattan-Philadelphia line was started (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq.). Last week, with installation complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coaxial Debut | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...current showing is that of Reginald Marsh, "High Yaller". This depicts a tall negro beauty striding down a Harlem street clad in her best Sunday finery. A dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/23/1936 | See Source »

...without the "of California") was formed to take over its predecessor's business under a management headed by old Pacific Mutual's President Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. No sooner had Messrs, Carpenter and Kemp announced details of their reorganization plan than wrathful stock and policyholders, created the biggest hue & cry California business had heard in some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mutual's Mess | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Embolectomy | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Barking his opinionated views-on-the-news into a microphone, Philadelphia's Harold ("Boake") Carter functions simultaneously as an advertisement for Philco Radio and as a contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Governor v. Commentator | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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