Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendant noises. While not yet perfect, television had reached its highest stage of development in last week's demonstration. Engineer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson of the U. S., with his seven beams of light, John L. Baird of England, with his super-sensitive photo-electric cell and infra-red rays, C. Francis Jenkins in Washington, Edouard Belin of France, these had hounded success for many years. But it remained for Dr. Herbert Ive's,* bearded, bespectacled chief of the Bell television research staff, to correlate the achievements of his predecessors and direct the work of many...
...Sing Sing Death House last week sat Thomas ("Red") Moran, awaiting the electric chair. To visitors, Convict Moran made complaint, lamenting, however, not his fate but his neighbors. On the one hand he is flanked by Convict Julius Gibbs, subject to fits of epilepsy. On the other he has Convict Adam Nappe, who speaks no English, with whom no hours can be whiled away in converse. Disgusted, Convict Moran said: "This is a fine combination to be up against...
...red dog, to bet less than the pot on four aces...
Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...
Married. Ethel J. Elkus, daughter of onetime (1916-19) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Abram I. Elkus; to Moses Hadas, of Atlanta, Ga.; at Red Bank...