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...England is strictly a gamble with the weather man. If snow doesn't come to New England during the next two weeks the best bet appears to be Canada's Laurentians, north of Montreal. There is already a cover of about 14 to 18 inches on both Mont Tremblant and St. Donat and the lifts have been running for several weeks...
...while it looked as if TV might escape the daily soap opera. Du Mont, after five sponsorless months, dropped A Woman to Remember. In a one-month sustaining run, NBC was unable to sell These Are My Children. But this week, with Procter & Gamble's The First Hundred Years (weekdays 2:30 p.m., CBS-TV), commercial daytime soap opera put a determined toe in the television door...
...tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration and color fidelity. CBS, Philco, Du Mont, Paramount and others are working on tri-color receiver tubes of their own design. None of them has yet been proved in field tests...
...Goldmark's system won the color decision, a loud, angry cry went up from the TV manufacturers and dealers who saw a threat to the millions invested in black & white sets. Emerson and Pilot hurried to join RCA in the Chicago court test; Dr. Allen B. Du Mont went on TV over his own network to demonstrate a CBS color wheel (for a 30-inch screen not yet on the market) and ridiculed the CBS system as giving "a Model-T type color picture." In full-page newspaper ads, Hallicrafters charged that "this ill-advised action...
Minor Sports H to David D. Calrus '52, Wareham; Clarke Coggeshall '52, New York City; David P. Gregory '52, Charlottesville, Va.; Paul R. Judy '53, Muncls, Ind.; Alan H. Master '52, Brooklyn, N. Y.; John H. Pankey '51, Phillipsburg, Mont.; Richard M. White '51, Denver, Colo.; and Norman V. Teem '52, Springfield, Mo. Undergraduate Manager. Also a Major H in minor Colors to Richard M. White '51, Denve, Cole, for winning three varsity letters in cross country...