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...Pittsfield, Mass, was the first to cry havoc. Police authorities in Boston and many another New England city jumped into line. New Orleans, one of the three cities west of the Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though...
...Pittsfield, Mass...
Irving Simon Michelman of Pittsfield and Leverett House, Social Service Committee...
Edward Holyoke Schoyer of Pittsfield and Leverett House, Freshman Committee and volunteer social service work...
...frequently, researchers of General Electric Co., looking for light on lightning (to help them protect transmission lines) began to photograph it from another building. The research was under the direction of Karl Boyer McEachron, 48, G. E.'s ace lightning researcher, who has been designing experimental apparatus Pittsfield for 16 years, has produced artificial bolts of 10,000,000 volts, others of 250,000 amperes (amperage is the amount of current, voltage the pressure which drives it). Last week Engineer McEachron reported the results of three summers of Empire State Building study...