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Engineers at WHRB started on the transmitter two weeks ago, on the design of Harold Dorshug, chief engineer of WEEI in Boston. Besides giving a clearer signal, the device may cut out much of the static listeners have been complaining about...
Improved advertising technique is not the only difference between WXHR and its predecessor. Where WBMS operated on the AM band, WXHR uses Frequency Modulation, which is static free and has a greater tone range. Moreover, WXHR is on the air during the evening from five to eleven o'clock. This means that WXHR has a wider "good music" audience than WBMS which was required to signoff at sundown and therefore was limited to the housewife group. Thornton also feels that FM listeners are more progressive and intelligent, and that night time FM can become a possible competitor to television...
...recapturing the vision of Lincoln . . . His was not a vision of a static, but of a dynamic American Union, not fearful of its own security but hopeful of achieving a world union . . ." - Frank D. Slocum of New York City...
...priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into a sickbed. Though Pagnol's film technique is static, his grasp of character and locale makes for a human film that is, by turns, uproarious and more than a little touching...
This is a picture without preaching, without answers, without hope. Struggling alone to find a way out off the past and what the past has made of him, character after character ends where he started. It may be that they are distorted and static, robots who can only late themselves and hurt each other. What is terrifying is that they look so much like people...