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...first thing a copy boy or cub reporter learns in the average city room is not to whistle, hum or sing. It's bad luck, and furthermore, it's disconcerting. But for more than two years, every 15 minutes from dawn till dark, the staid city room of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (circ. 114,854) has echoed to the strains of such treacly tunes as Dear Hearts & Gentle People and Because You Love Me. Miss Eleanor McClatchy, fiftyish, publisher of the Bee, wants it that way. She thinks that the music (piped in by Muzak) relaxes...
...three wire-service men jumped up, and pushed their way to the door. A hum of excitement swept the crowded room...
Graham calls himself "Dr." on the strength of two honorary degrees-a D.D. from King's College at New Castle, Del. and a D. Hum. from Fundamentalist, unaccredited Bob Jones University at Greenville, S.C. He also holds an A.B. from straitlaced Wheaton College, where he majored in Physical and Cultural Anthropology. Currently he is paid $8,500 a year as president of Northwestern Schools at Minneapolis, Minn., where he spends about a fifth of his time...
...diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited...
...cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory...