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...Frank Sedgman was not for sale, after all. Last week at the banquet celebrating Australia's Davis Cup victory (TIME, Jan. 7), Sedgman borrowed tuppence from his coach, Harry Hopman, and put through a phone call to Sydney's Daily Telegraph to make an announcement: he was going on as an amateur...
Such virtue, the Daily Telegraph proclaimed on its front page, deserved more than its own reward. Melbourne's Sun and Adelaide's Advertiser heartily agreed. By week's end the extra reward reached $8,500, raised by the three newspapers as "a wedding gift fund for Frank Sedgman's fiancée," Miss Jean Spence...
Last week microwave communication had a big new customer. The Tennessee Valley Authority started work on a 350-mile, $350,000 microwave system to link up its new power plants in Alabama and Tennessee. When completed by a subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., TVA's new system will carry voice and teletype messages, send in meter readings and reports on power loads, and help control power distribution...
Automatic Men. Microwave networks cost less than $1,000 a mile to build, only half the cost of conventional telephone & telegraph lines. Maintenance costs are also low, since there are no poles and wires to blow down in storms. Western Union pulled itself out of the red largely through the installation of microwave facilities...
American Telephone & Telegraph,which uses microwaves for transcontinental television and telephone communications, is the biggest commercial user. Pipelines and other utilities are the next biggest users of microwave communication to date. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.'s President Claude Williams is installing microwave all along his 1,840-mile line from