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When the Blue network changed its name to the American Broadcasting Co. (TIME, June 25), it obviously wanted the simple call letters "ABC." But the smaller Associated Broadcasting Corp. network, which got there first, promptly sued. To prove that there is nothing simple about the ABCs, American last week paid Associated $25,000 out of court for rights to the initials.* For that sum, Associated gladly called itself a "system" rather than a "corporation," said that it would henceforth be known...
...Some network officials were soothed by BAE's assurance that the farmer "values radio highly," would miss it if it were taken away. That was neither the question nor the answer. Radio, the modern invention, had long since been proved and approved. What many of the farmers were trying to say: the contraption could be put to better...
...antenna, revolving like a non stop merry-go-round, seeks out these static signals and relays them to the weatherman as straight-line flashes on the face of the cathode-ray tube. The angular positions of the flashes indicate the di rection the storm is taking. A network of stations taking simultaneous observations of the same flashes can locate their source and spot a storm position in a 2,000-mile radius. One drawback: not all storms stir up enough static...
Last week, the ABC network apparently agreed to hold still. New York's mayor, who is retiring in only one sense, signed up for $1,000 a week (more than twice his salary as mayor) to do a coast-to-coast sustaining Sunday night commentary. Starting date: Jan. 6. Asked whether a new star was born, the Little Flower replied: "You may say that it is starting to twinkle...
Counter-radar licked Japanese naval radar, but its toughest enemy was the enormous radar network the Nazis spread over Europe. German coastal radars watched for Allied ships and planes. Thousands of inland "Wurzburgs" (radars shaped like giant electric heaters) aimed the Nazis' antiaircraft guns with fiendish precision. If the Wurzburgs had not been scotched by counter-radar, they might well have defeated Allied bombing...