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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligence is only apparent," explained Mr. Wenslely; "it of course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...contemporary work the student must travel to New York in order to see any number of works large enough to be representative of current artistic endeavor. Monthly exhibitions which will attempt at least to touch on every field of contemporary work should in a large part fill this need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTEMPORARY ART | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Last night at a dinner held at the home of Professor P. J. Sachs '00, a new University organization, the "Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Incorporated" was founded. This society has been formed to meet the need felt for exhibitions of works of art in all fields of contemporary endeavor, and will hold exhibits in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS FOUND NEW ART SOCIETY | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Since the New York Symphony merged with the Philharmonic, Manhattan has felt keenly the need of a second orchestra. Last week the problem seemed solved when the Society of the Friends of Music announced that next year it would have an independent orchestra-to which Artur Bodanzky, now conducting his last season at the Metropolitan Opera, would give full time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...pillar to salesclerk post, miserably deficient in supporting his family, scorned by relatives and Illinois townsfolk, when the war started. Grant decided he must repay the government for his free, if meager, education at West Point. For months his desultory applications for a command were ignored, but when the need for better generalship grew desperate, a trick of chance politics brought him to the crucial command in Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anti-climax | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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