Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert O. Blechman, who has drawn the pictures and adapted the legend, is 23, a Jew, a private in the U.S. Signal Corps, and a graduate (last year) of Oberlin College. His squiggly, deceptively childlike drawings have appeared in such magazines as Glamour, Charm, Mademoiselle, Collier's and Theatre Arts. But his greatest pleasure since he was a boy has been "drawing books" and circulating them among his family and friends. The Juggler of Our Lady was a logical result...
Nothing but the Truth. In West Warwick, R.I., asked by the judge to explain why he ignored a policeman's signal to stop and instead snapped off his car lights and sped away, Motorist Paul R. McKenna answered: "I didn't want to be caught...
Last week life imitated art again. The U.S. Army Signal Corps announced that it has developed a wrist radio with a receiving range of 40 miles. A wire (hidden under the wearer's sleeve) connects the radio with an amplifier that looks like a hearing aid. The radio parts are minuscule -the mercury battery is not much larger than the point of a pencil, and the whole mechanism weighs 2 ⅝oz. Name of the Army's wrist radio: the Dick Tracy...
...months ago. eleven merchant vessels -nine British, one Danish and one Italian -have been intercepted in the China Sea. At least two were escorted to the Nationalist port of Keelung, where their cargoes were confiscated. One, the S.S. Inchkilda, was rescued by the British light aircraft carrier Unicorn, which signaled the Admiralty: "Unicorn closed and ordered the gunboat to stop. None of the riffraff on board could read the signal...
...June. But even more worrisome was the fact that railroad stocks, which had been leading the market until recently, actually broke through their year's low. To the dwindling band of Wall Street theorists who still follow the so-called Dow Theory, that was an alarm signal. If the industrial index should also break through its 1953 low, that would be a "confirmation"-the official signal that a bear market had begun. This week the signal came-on opening day, the industrials plunged another 4.52 points and broke through the old lows to close...