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...George Larrimore, a Gushing woman who speaks Ukrainian, came often to reassure Prowska and Jackin. Still Prowska drew a slender forefinger across her throat. "Mother, brothers, sisters, father kaput," she would...
...lens focuses the scene being viewed on the front side of the photoconductor. A slender beam of electrons from an "electron gun" scans the rear side of the photo-conductor. When the electrons hit a brightly lighted area, a lot of them pass through. When they hit dark parts, only a few of them pass through. The transparent conducting layer collects the escaping electrons and passes them on in the form of a "video" current whose rapid fluctuations represent the light and shade of the picture. An ordinary television set turns the current into a copy of the scene which...
When the fattened-up electrons are making their last turn around the tube, they are deflected by special magnets and made to strike a tungsten target, knocking out of it a slender beam of enormously powerful X rays. In effect, a betatron is an outsized X-ray tube; the X. rays are its desirable product...
...over, Firkusny began to come into his own. Last year he played in 50 U.S. cities; Carnegie Hall audiences heard him play five times within a month, with three major orchestras: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra. Even the Times had decided that slender Rudolf Firkusny was "now an interpretive artist in his own right...
Last week, in a new addition to the slender list of Franck biographies (Cesar Franck; Philosophical Library, $4.75), British Critic Norman Demuth told a good deal about the composer. He also told a little-unfortunately only a little-about amiable, warmhearted Cesar Franck himself...