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Brandishing his cane, McKellar thundered, "I'm going to beat the tar out of you." Dunlap, 48, retorted, "If you were 40 years younger, I'd knock your teeth down your throat," and walked out of McKellar's office unbeaten, unharmed...
Electronic engineers loathe mechanical moving parts. One that has always bothered them is the light, vibrating diaphragm in the throat of a loudspeaker. Compared to the almost weightless electrons that flash through radio tubes, the loudspeaker membranes are sluggish. Their slow and clumsy response distorts the delicate signals brought to them by the electrons; the ordinary mechanical loudspeakers cannot reproduce the full range of music or the human voice. The ideal loudspeaker, the engineers have long believed, should have a diaphragm almost as weightless as the electrons themselves...
Although Hollywood's top moviemakers are confident that they can hold TV at least to a draw without having to join their mushrooming rival, two more independent studios last week followed the lead of the profitable Hal Roach TV film operation (TIME, Oct. 29). Republic Pictures cleared its throat, announced that it had set aside $1,000,000 to enlarge its sound stage space for TV film production and to finance its first pictures for television (one character already on tap: Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe). Next day, Monogram Pictures fell in line, announced that...
...petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind him. Downstairs he washed his shirt, took a shower, dressed and bicycled away...
...Stokes is planning experiments to see whether a throat spray containing a virus of a disease such as mumps, given soon after injections of gamma globulin, can produce active immunity against the disease...