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...with a typical early morning farm program: 1) its broadcast of yesterday's prices is no help on tomorrow's market; 2) the program is on the air at a time when he is out doing his chores; 3) it can hardly be heard anyway, what with static and fading caused by his distance from the big-city transmitter...
Though the standing of the teams has remained static and as expected since the first games, the dropping off of players from the various teams threatens to change the complexion of the league during the next three weeks of play. Eliot House, defending champ and top dog until last week, though still undefeated, has virtually lost its first backfield to the sick list and possibly its first place chances. Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell are her top contenders...
...from Washington to Jersey City, took along an observation carload of reporters to witness the first use of a TV set on a train. The receiver was specially built by Bendix engineers to eliminate such bugs as landscape blocks, high speed (the train hit 80 m.p.h.), and static caused by passing trains. Biggest problem was the antenna. Because of the low clearances allowed by trestles, tunnels and overpasses, the antenna could rise only 15¾ inches above...
...tips on appearance--"We know that beauty is only skin deep, but you don't have to look as though you lived only for things of the mind,"--and activities--"Eat where people don't mind your eating. In the far reaches of the library, potato chips sound like static on a 1932 radio...
...from Attorney General Tom Clark's office last week went some long-awaited "big news." The news was that the antitrust division of the Department of Justice, with an election-year ear tuned to the static made by high meat prices, was going after the "meat monopoly...