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...technological front, "teevee" was also busy. Last week there was a spate of new developments. Arcturus Radio & Television Corp. was readying sets that need no aerials at all (price: around $400 to $1,400). Electronic Laboratories, Inc. began marketing a plug-in gadget ($80 for table models; $120 for consoles) to make sets work on direct current, thereby adding 300,000 potential customers in Manhattan alone...
Ready, Set, Go. The barflies campaign evidently started when Hearst, who disapproves of women in bars, called up the Los Angeles Examiner's Editor Ray T. Van Ettisch from his Beverly Hills villa. As the campaign got rolling, there was a spate of headlines like BABY ABANDONED BY BARFLY MOTHER. Hearst reporters knew, without anyone telling them, that they could get space with stories about women in bars. But it was a little hard to whip up public indignation. "The whole thing sounds as old-fashioned as the pink lady, sniffed a San Francisco woman, ordering another oldfashioned...
...disembowelment of hard-to-kill illusions was accomplished by a remarkable bit of teamwork between a Princeton football squad and a thoroughly damping spate of rain. It is a matter of record that the intensity of the two forces increased as the long afternoon wore on, and that when the clock finally halted one, the other rose at once to new and depressing heights...
...rhapsody is not the only notice the Dominican Republic has had recently in the U.S. A spate of glowing publicity pictures and handouts on Trujillo-land has been cluttering editorial desks. And as his U.S. legal representative (registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Section), Dictator Trujillo has hired onetime New Dealing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' Washington law firm (Cummings & Stanley...
From the Crimson's first opponent this year, Connecticut, comes a cautiously worded spate of pre-season dope. "Head Coach J. O. Christian has used several backfield combinations during the past week in an effort to assemble his most effective unit for the opener against Harvard." This notably tough team, is made tougher by the presence of a Mr. Trojanowski, who played fullback for Connecticut Huskies last year, and was at season's end, conceded to be one of the finer backs in New England. So what do they say about him? "Wall Trojanokski is set for a starting role...