Word: sturm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promising new method uses an "electronic screen intensifier" developed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Russell H. Morgan and Ralph Sturm. Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras. The tube scans (in 1,029 "lines" instead of the standard 525) the image and turns it into fluctuations of an electric signal...
Faint Shadows. In an ordinary TV setup this signal would be far too weak to be turned back into an image on the face of the picture tube, but Morgan and Sturm have learned how to amplify it enormously. They can put their apparatus to work watching a fluoroscope in a darkened room; it can see in light ten times too dim for human eyes. The faint shadows may be barely visible, but when they appear on the picture tube, they are bright enough to be studied in full daylight. This is important for doctors who examine patients by fluoroscope...
...keep in touch with the Order of Battle Section, Gardy struck up a romance with German named Sturm who worked there. One velvety night in November, Gardy offered to marry Sturm if he would steal for her information on the workings of the Order of Battle Section and the names of U.S. agents in East Germany...
...Instead, Sturm reported Gardy's proposition to agents of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, who manufactured a bogus report on the Order of Battle Section and instructed Sturm to give it to Gardy...
...course, it may be a cleverly concealed allegory and not a comedy at all. In that case, it is also miserable allegory. The actors are completely lost in the script, and can make no more of it than can the audience. But it really isn't their fault. Mr. Sturm thought it would be killing to have a bunch of men pretend they are drunk, another man pretend he is a dangerous criminal, and a woman pretend that she cares what the whole bunch is doing. Unfortunately, someone forgot to add funny lines to the script and was misled into...