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Radar, one of the most heavily curtained of war secrets, was bared for a quick peek by the Army and Navy. The word stands for "radio detecting and ranging." Basis of operation, a high-frequency radio ray, scanning air or sea, bounces back from objects it strikes: e.g., ships or planes. Radar measures the infinitesimal fraction of a second this takes (at 186,000 miles an hour), thus calculates distance as well as direction. Both Britain and Germany have similar devices...
Those chosen for the two College teams are: affirmative, Sheldon K. Beren '44, captain, Haskell Gredberg '44 and Samuel E. Stuart '45; negative, John E. Corrigan '44, captain, Cornelina J. Peek '45 and Francis de S. Weidich...
...upon as a rarity at the library. Greek, Latin, Pig-Latin, French (Louis Quatorze style), and Esperanto seem to be the popular idiom among the clientele of the establishment, most of whom have spent a good deal of their lives learning to read these languages so that they might peek into one of the many thousands of volumes therein. These people, their friends call them curators, also know something about comparative zoology, and they delight in tracking down crustaecea, plodding through the pisces, and going "with gun and camera through the Alimentary Canal." Such bliss can only be found...
Into the Sanctum. Soon to be unveiled by circumstance, New Jersey Zinc has grown big on strict attention to business and a devout policy of the less said the better. For decades its stockholder reports have been dull, stereotyped affairs with a peek at quarterly earnings; its reams of trade publicity have never given a hint of production, sales or industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...