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Kirk, now just over 30, has spent much of his life pursuing a kind of mys tical lost chord. His quest began at 19, in his native Columbus, Ohio, where he literally dreamed of playing two horns at the same time and was entranced by what he heard in his mind's ear. After an antique dealer turned up the manzello, which approximates the soprano sax, and the stritch, which is close to an alto sax, Kirk began practicing what he had dreamed. Since then he has blown his horns all over Europe...
...station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward the station (see diagram...
Benthocometes-Claude. Georges Claude had made a fortune from his prac tical inventions, spent much of it on bizarre experiments. Fifteen years ago he took a ship to Cuba's Matanzas Bay, sank a mile-long tube, pumped up cold water from the ocean floor. It was his idea to utilize the temperature differential be tween this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube...
From Prague General Bohumil Bocek, Czechoslovak Chief of Staff, broadcast last week that henceforth the organization, armament and training of the Czechoslovak military forces will be iden tical with the Russian Army's. Czechoslovak officers will be trained in Soviet military schools...
...mind about these issues, the A.P. let the Times go ahead with its experiment.) It costs the Times about $1,000 a day to pass out 2,000 free copies a day to conference delegates. In return, the Times is getting a lot of good will, and some prac tical experience toward fulfilling its claim to be a national newspaper (it has always feared that quality would be diffused in chain publishing). Encouraged by the success of their experiment, Times editors are speculating right out loud that the Times, by facsimile transmission, could keep its Manhattan integrity while distributing late...