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...weeks after Kay McNulty graduated from Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill College in 1942 with a degree in mathematics, she got a job at the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory as a human "computer," calculating artillery trajectories. For three years she did the kind of mind-numbing mathematical drudgery--punching numbers into a mechanical calculator and copying down the results--that in those days was measured in "girl hours." Then she was invited by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering to help J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly put the finishing touches on a new kind...
...Grist Brainerd, the project director. "He would work on it day and night, and worry, worry." Two cots were installed on the ground floor of the Moore School so that the exhausted computer scientists could rest near their cherished machine. "When it finally turned on, everyone was elated," recalls Kay Mauchly. "It seemed like every day was a happy...
...were taken into custody based on "reliable and corroborated statements provided to this department by an informant," Thompson said. The girlfriend was identified as Teressa Kay Deburger, 18, a Glendale High School student...
...always a heartache to find that one's assumptions are painfully, tragically stupid. But kay-sera-sera, as Patrick the birthday boy is wont to sing...
...world (a fall coat, for example, made of wool and nylon mesh costs $955). Two pieces of advice in passing, then, to the intrepid and well-heeled consumer taking a maiden voyage into Miyake: the clothes, so unconstraining, can be addictive; and the name is pronounced Me-yah-kay. Ee-say Me-yah-kay...