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...play begins with a good deal of fun in a fantasy of color and character. The elements of a scanty plot are dispensed with immediately, but from there on everyone, especially the author, seems confused. Is it a comedy of manners, a bedroom farce, a philosophic romance, or a static vaudeville show? Unfortunately, it winds up with what looks too much like a prolonged curtain call. The dialogue, on which most of S. N. Behrman's plays depend, is laborious in its humor, forced in its numerous modern references, and "stuck in" like the book of a musical comedy. Songs...
Leverett House listeners will be able to hear the static less broadcasts of frequency modulation stations through the facilities of WLP. Special high fidelity recordings made through the courtesy of the American Broadcasting System, the National Broadcasting System, and the British Broadcasting are among the 5000 records in the Leverett station's library...
...front in Burma had grown relatively static. Any day the Jap might burst into action, lance north into China to cut the rudimentary land supply lines from the west, now under development, or burst west into febrile, ill-prepared India. On the sea the Jap's teeth had been well drawn. Until he could work out another attack that might win by surprise, he could well devote his first attention to land drives...
...minutes of nonstop conducting, Arturo Toscanini looked as if he had just come through the siege of Leningrad. The audience jumped up and cheered, as if it had just heard news of a Nazi defeat. Thousands of radio listeners, who in many sections had fought a losing battle with static, sighed and turned their dials...
...plush '28. Tobe's engineers became expert in repairing broken-down equipment with bailing wire and tweezers. The only way they kept alive at all was on small specialty jobsקike keeping the tenants from moving out of an apartment house en masse because of radio static, whose source they finally traced to the thermostat in a goldfish bowl. But they learned as much about static as anyone else...