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...tavern on the West Side made it possible for fans to stay in Chicago. Customer Syl Szajers, a technician at Zenith Radio, moved a converted TV set of his own design into the Polonia Grove bar. He rigged up a 40-foot mast on the tavern roof, perched a five-element antenna atop it, and pointed it in the direction of Milwaukee. A homemade booster amplifier brought in the signal and the Polonia's customers watched happily as Robinson knocked out his opponent. Said Szajers modestly: "Oh, the picture was a little shaky-but so was Rocky Graziano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fight Night | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Spotlights flooded the stage with an almost supernatural brightness. "Five seconds, five!" Gentle music filled the air and a technician waved his hand. Calmly striding from the wings came a stately man. He wore a black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Microphone Missionary | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...precocious calculating machine named Junior. He restores Russo-American harmony by arranging-among other things-for a U.S. space captain to sleep with a Russian cybernetics technician named Anna on the moon. Neither Anna nor the captain has much to offer in the way of character, but Author Frederic Brown makes Junior sound quite a human fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrors in Space | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Helen Bray was an attendant at California's Pacific Colony State Hospital for retarded children for five years before she decided to take the exam for psychiatric technician. When she did, she placed first. Thereupon, Technician Bray got charge of a sprawling cottage housing 100 youngsters aged one to three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Outstretched Hand | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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