Word: mc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Child in a Hurry. John Joseph Gunther was born Aug. 3, 1901, in North Side Chicago. From his father, Eugene Mc-Clellan Gunther, a convivial drifter, he inherited big-boned bulk and heroic alcoholic capacity. From their schoolteacher-mother, Lisette Schoeninger Gunther, John and sister Jean took on lifelong respect for book learning. As a sickly eleven-year-old, John showed precocious talent as a rewriteman by compiling a children's encyclopedia from John Clark Ridpath's Cyclopedia of Universal History. Contents: "All the Necessary Statistics of the World," "World Battleships," "Greek and Roman Mythology with Genealogic Tables...
...Chance. He got his chance, months later, the hard way. On the night of Oct. 4, 1957, Von Braun was called to the telephone from a Redstone dinner honoring Defense Secretary-designate Neil Mc-Elroy. Voice on the wire: "New York Times calling, Doctor." Von Braun: "Yes?" Timesman: "Well, what do you think of it?" Von Braun: "Think of what?" Timesman: "The Russian satellite, the one they just orbited...
...space vehicle." In A.P.'s second story British Broadcasting Corp. engineers pronounced that the signal was probably earthbound. The A.P. finally traced the beep to the "electronic groan" of an idling Russian teleprinter on the 20-megacycle band used by the Sputniks. (The teleprinter was on 20.025 mc.; the Sputnik frequency is 20.005 mc...
...phone call from B-entry alerted the Police who finally caught Joseph Mc-Hugh at 3 a.m. in Lowell E-43. When apprehended, McHugh was in the midst of ransacking a wallet in a student's desk...
...lectures will be televised live on WGBH (channel 2), and recorded by WGBH-FM (89.7mc) for later broadcast...