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Strong for Law & Order, Socialist Karl Severing began his career as a locksmith...
...Last Mile is written by John Wexley. onetime actor with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, now playing the locksmith in Leo Bulgakov's revival of Maxim Gorki's At the Bottom, familiarly known as The Lower Depths (TIME, Jan. 20). It is said that his play follows the outline of actual events which took place in Colorado, that he has utilized Death House dialog as transcribed by an inmate. The play is performed by a cast of 16 men. It is an experience for those who can stomach...
...Multiplex System. Upon a 10-metre "carrier" wave, Mr. Hammond's multiplex sending instrument impresses modulations, much as a locksmith files teeth in a blank key. A set of eight modulations goes out with each compound signal of the set of eight messages. Physically, these modulations consist in alterations of the length of the carrier wave by fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot...