Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tubes except that each has on its face a phosphor that glows in a different basic color. Each little impulse (the colored freight cars) arriving over the beam is electronically switched to the properly colored tube. They arrive so fast that each tube-face is covered 15 times a second with a pattern of tiny dots corresponding to the blues, reds and greens in the scene being televised. The more red there is in a part of the scene (e.g., a red dress), the brighter the red dots on the corresponding part of the red tube...
Degradation. Both RCA and CBS are highly skilled at pointing out faults in the other company's system. First, says RCA, the CBS pictures are "degraded." This means that CBS, to increase the number of pictures per second and thereby avoid flicker, has had to reduce the number of scanned lines in each picture from 525 to 405. Thus, the "definition" is reduced and the grain of the picture is made coarser, like a newspaper cut compared to an illustration in a slick-paper magazine...
Bishop Manning also had his monument : upper Manhattan's soaring, French-Gothic Cathedral of St. John the Divine-second largest church in the world (the largest: Rome's St. Peter's). By indefatigably begging funds from Protestants of all denominations, as well as from Catholics and Jews, he managed to raise some $15 million for the ninth-of-a-mile-long cathedral, now nearly completed...
Married. Vice President Alben William ("Veep") Barkley, 71, and Mrs. Carleton Sturtevant Hadley, 38; both for the second time; in St. Louis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...basement room of a Third Avenue gallery last week hung the second Manhattan exhibition of contemporary Haitian art. Done by houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...