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...blackly. Snorted Judge Henry P. Field, in whose office Calvin Coolidge got his first job: "It's a disgrace to Northampton!" Equally uncomfortable as the parade of shabby possessions trickled past, Lawyer Ralph W. Hemenway, Calvin Coolidge's onetime partner, explained they were "just a bunch of junk...
...landlubberish TIME a rebuke from wave-ruling England. You should know that only the compass is hung in gimbals, which are then suspended inside the binnacle. The binnacle itself is never gimballed (TIME, Feb. 10, China, "Junk de Luxe" - ". . . hung on gimbals like a binnacle...
...bomb." Haled into court to face charges of disorderly conduct, the 25 students sheepishly explained that they had merely wanted to have some fun, pointed out that the "bomb" was harmless. The white powder: sugar. Federal authorities scratched their heads, admitted that no statute forbids the mailing of junk, however fearfully disguised. To Chancellor Flint, who was vacationing with his wife in Miami, Fla. the School of Architecture closed the incident by sending a round-robin apology for the prank...
...actually selling receiving sets for $119. Now Dr. C. Francis Jenkins is dead, and his company is defunct. The Jenkins sets were made for programs televised by mechanical scanners - rapidly revolving disks with holes or mirrors to juggle the scanning beam. The Farnsworth and RCA-Victor electronic scanners made junk of disk sets. Now, before jumping into television, the radio industry would like to be sure that another technical advance would not similarly scuttle the public's investment...
...junk," explained Captain Kilkenny last week, "is duck-shaped rather than fish-shaped, so it can plunge into the trough of a wave and rise again almost vertically without shipping water...