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...Grovers Mills, near Princeton. He listened long enough to hear "Professor Pierson of Princeton" (Welles), and talk of invasion, gas, fire, and many deaths. Believing that everybody was done in down Princeton way, he headed back to rescue his girl, covered 45 miles in 35 minutes, passed through Newburgh, N. Y. (pop. 31,000) without noticing it. Analyzing this young man's questionnaire, Psychologist Cantril deduced him to be well-to-do, conventional, "particularly susceptible to prestige suggestion." The reputation of Columbia Broadcasting System, the broadcast references to the Princeton professor and the pessimistic Secretary of the Interior greatly...
Winter was tightening its screws on the Hudson Valley when the ship Experimenter hastily cleared from Newburgh, N. Y., before the Hudson should become ice-locked. Aboard, with a crew of two, was her owner, Professor Walter B. Pitkin, author (Life Begins at 40), lecturer, a man of many ideas, some of them large...
...Caribbean was her ultimate destination. A few hours out of Newburgh, ice was beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked...
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...more efficient than manual operation of linotypes. Stories are accumulated either on the Semagraph code copy or on the Teletypesetter tape. These stories are then fed to the linotypes which turn out type faster and more steadily than a man can produce it. In the offices of the Newburgh, N. Y. Newburgh News, Teletype-setters have been in use to obtain greater volume of production from the linotypes for five years...