Word: record
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That feeling gained some respectability eight weeks ago when Federal Judge Albert Reeves ordered into the record the complete FBI reports which Spy Judith Coplon had hastily abstracted for her Soviet friends. The FBI had wanted to withdraw from the trial rather than let its reports be admitted into evidence. For one thing, innocent people were involved. To be sure, the FBI could (and did) explain that the reports-attributed to confidential informants identified only as ND-402, ND-305 and T-7-were unprocessed, unevaluated raw material. They were also, undeniably, a bewildering clutch of gossip, hearsay and trivia...
...receives because of it, as part of his job. He knows that he cannot afford to be too particular about the information he collects: 75% of FBI convictions began as tips. As for accusations that he is engaged in a witch hunt, he points to the FBI's record. If only 91 out of 2,597,000 Government employees checked by the FBI have been discharged for disloyalty, he argues, the FBI can hardly be accused of drumming up a reign of terror...
...France is too young to remember the 1920s, but she was making U.S. oldsters remember mah-jongg and miniature golf, This Side of Paradise, the Black Bottom and peephole speakeasies. Specifically, Shirley May intended to swim the English Channel, and, if possible, to break the women's record of 14 hrs. 31 min. set by Gertrude ("Trudy") Ederle in 1926. Since Trudy did it (and won a shower of Manhattan's pre-depression ticker tape),* other women have occasionally tried to beat her time. Only last week a 31-year-old Dutch housewife, Mrs. Willi Croes van Rijsel...
...Columbia 33⅓-r.p.m. turntable, plug it into the old 78 r.p.m. machine, and call it a solution? Nearly a million record buyers have done just that. But millions of others have hesitated. RCA Victor has by far the world's largest recording roster of fine artists. Would the rest of the industry be pulled into RCA's strong orbit? Until they had the answer, many record collectors stopped buying altogether...
...exorcise the speed demon, top executives of RCA Victor, Columbia and Decca have been huddling in quiet meetings. Last week there was still no agreement. Until the industry pulled itself together, record fans had two sensible alternatives : postpone buying or buy a turntable that plays all three speeds. There are about ten on the market, ranging in price from $15 to more than...