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...Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental line between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Cinema executives objected, professing to see the fertile seed of a ruinous monopoly. The Commission decided that A. T. & T. might install the cable if it were made available to any competitor who might like to putter with it. The company hesitated, unwilling to dispense the fruit of its own labors. Last week A. T. & T. announced that no experimental line would be installed and that all experiments with the cable would be dropped, complacently implied that wide-scale television was now pushed back years-indeed, indefinitely...
...Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
...House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to snatch back its partial approval of the drastic Nye-Clark proposals. Thereafter State Department experts and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis were left to putter in peace with their own ideas of neutrality bylaw...
...President Hoover had shipped the Bonus Army of 1932 off to pleasant camps to play, putter and carouse at Government expense, the nation's Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...with his old company. Alert, ambitious, quick-thinking, he was soon moved up to the position of works manager and finally, in 1928, became president. Quiet, conservative Mr. Tew kept on living in comparative modesty at nearby Hudson where, always investigating new ways to make rubber, he used to putter with latex on the kitchen stove...