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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey-haired, 47-year-old Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee, a lawyer, onetime state legislator, the city's first Councilwoman and its public-utilities commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Madame Mayor | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Syracuse: E. Tefft Barker '37, Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee & Mawhinney, Syracuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Head Asks '48 To Join Locals | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...known mock conventions Vandenberg has won 13-at Harvard, Washingtion & Lee, Washington University (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Marquette, Oberlin, Wooster, Case (Cleveland), Centre (Ky.), Kalamazoo, Northern Michigan College of Education, Augustana (Ill.) and Lindenwood (Mo.), Stassen was the choice at University of Pennsylvania, Miami (Ohio) and Russell Sage Dewey won at Hiram (Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Word | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles, Don Lee's W6XAO, the oldest TV station in the U.S. (17 years), quit calling itself experimental, and went commercial. In Atlanta, Louisville, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Stockton, Calif, and 50 other U.S. cities, television towers were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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