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Having broken through the heavy static at the equator after a fortnight of reported failure (TIME, Apr. 20), Explorer William Beebe, last week, employed his radio to tell the U. S. his oceanographic adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. Cruising south from Panama to study the chilly Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador (TIME, Apr. 13), thence west to the Galapagos Islands (on the Equator, longitude 92° west), those on board the Arcturus had beheld...
...supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind it. In his new book, he writes a series of satiric squibs about religion, Europe, chorus girls, Finnish dramatists, athletes. They are not in his best manner...
Equipment. Daylight is unfavorable to wireless communication, but the MacMillian planes will be equipped with sets for transmitting 20-, 40-, 80-and 180-metre wave lengths. It is believed that the shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...
...Naval Commandant at Balboa, Panama, notified the Navy Department at Washington that two unnamed ships had relayed to him by air some intelligence from the Arcturus. Next day, the ship reported direct to Washington, stating she was off the Galapagos Islands (730 miles west from Ecuador). Heavy static at the equator had interfered with Beebe's wireless...
Rabbi Levi, explaining that there could be no "static religion", denied the existence of an orthodox religion...